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ROD - Slavic God. The Supreme Almighty, the All-God is the beginning and cause of everything living and non-living in this world, he is in everyone, from here there are such Native and important words for every Slav as MOTHERLAND, NATURE, SPRING, etc. It identifies many Gods and Ancestors, it is one and many at the same time, when we remember all our ancestors: Fathers, Grandfathers, Great-grandfathers and Great-great-grandfathers, we say - this is our ROD. The genus is the most revered of the Slavic gods, and its image is the strongest amulet.

BelBog is the bright hypostasis of the supreme God of the Slavs of the Sort, the embodiment of light. God of good luck and happiness, embodying the universal forces of conservation and creation. He is the God of light and spring day, Happy life. Previously, our ancestors, the Slavs, did not start any serious business without glorifying Belobog. He is also considered the giver of wealth and fertility.

Svarog is the God of Heaven, the lord and father of the rest of the bright Gods.
Svarog is the patron and creator of heavenly and earthly fire, the patron and progenitor of the entire Slavic Family.
Svarog - God the blacksmith who created the obvious world, the visible universe (hence the word: “bung”, i.e. create, create something). Svarog sends the sun's rays to the earth, making it fertile, nourishes and warms the flora and fauna.

Lada - The female hypostasis of the Family. Goddess of love, beauty, marriage, abundance. In the name of Lada, the ancient Slavs called not only the original goddess of love, but also the whole system of life - Lad, where everything should be harmonious and fine.
The wife called her beloved Lado, and he called her his Ladushka.

Svetovid - many Slavic tribes honored Svetovid as the god of victories and war. A special feast was dedicated to Svyatovid - the name day of the barn, and they were celebrated only in the fall. Therefore, along with this, he was also recognized as the god of fertility; prayers were sent to him for an abundance of earthly fruits and prosperity in the house and in the Family!

Makosh (Mokosh) - Great Goddess. She possesses the secret of Rule, the secret of the Destiny of all living on this earth. Both people and Gods obey her orders. She patronizes women in their household chores. Also, all divination and fortune-telling cannot do without Makosh, here she is revealed as the “Mother of the Lot” and the “Goddess of Fate”, fortune-telling, magic, to be under the auspices of this Goddess.
Makosh is a spinner, she spins the threads of fate into a ball, and, depending on our actions, weaves Share (good deeds) and lack (bad deeds and actions) into our ball of fate.
Makosh is also the patroness of marriage and family happiness, for one of the special secrets trusted only by Makosh was dreams of a betrothed.

Dazhdbog (Dazhbog) - Slavic God of white light, sun and heat. The giver of all blessings and the keeper of life on earth (hence his name Dazhdbog - the Giving God). Dazhdbog is the deliverer of people from the forces of the dark world of all wickedness. During the day he rides across the sky on a golden chariot, holding a shield in his right hand - the Sun, and at night he sails on a silver boat in the underworld.

Alive - the Slavic Goddess, the personification of all earthly life, as well as fruitful strength, youth, beauty, fertility and birth!
Goddess Alive, gives kindness, tenderness, cordiality and attentiveness to pregnant women and nursing mothers, so she protects all the girls who have yet to give birth to Slavic children.

GOD KUPALA (Kupalo) - God, who gives a person the opportunity to perform all kinds of Ablutions and conducts the Rites of Purification of the Teles, Soul and Spirit from various ailments and diseases. God guides to a joyful and happy life.

Kupala is a cheerful and beautiful God, dressed in light white robes decorated with flowers. On the head of God Kupala there is a wreath of beautiful flowers.

Kupala was revered as the God of the warm time of Summer, wild flowers and wild fruits.

Many Slavic-Aryan Clans engaged in field cultivation revered God Kupala along with the Goddess Makosh and Goddess Tara, as well as the Gods - Perun and Beles.

Before the start of the harvest and the harvest of field fruits, in honor of God Kupala, a holiday was celebrated at which bloodless sacrifices were made to God Kupala, as well as to all the Ancient Gods and Ancestors.

At the feast, the Orthodox Old Believers-Ynglings throw their bloodless sacrifices and trebs into the fire of the Holy Swastika Altar so that everything sacrificed appears on holiday tables Gods and Ancestors.

After bringing bloodless sacrifices from the living fire of the Sacred Swastika Altar, the Community members light candles and fire pits, which are fixed on wreaths and rafts and sent along the rivers. - diseases, all sorts of failures, various problems, etc. This rite can be explained as follows.

A burning candle or firelight illuminates the request or desire of the Community, the water of the river remembers them and, evaporating, rises to Heaven, conveying to the Gods all the requests and desires of the Orthodox Old Believers.

At the feast, each of the Orthodox Old Believers must undergo a complete purification in order to fully cleansed begin to collect field fruits and begin the field harvest. The complete cleansing of the Orthodox Old Believers consists of three parts:

First Purification (Purification of the Body)

Everyone present at the celebration on the Day of God Kupala must wash his body in sacred waters (rivers, lakes, ponds, etc.) to wash away fatigue and dirt.

Second Purification (Purification of the Soul)

In order for those present at the celebration on the Day of God Kupala to be able to purify their Soul, they light large bonfires, and everyone who wants to jump over these bonfires, because Fire burns all negativity and purifies the aura and Soul of a person.

Third Purification (Purification of the Spirit)

Each Community Old Believer present at the celebration on the Day of God Kupala, as well as those who wish, can purify and strengthen their Spirit. To do this, a Fiery Circle is created from the burning coals of a large fire, along which the Old Believers-Ynglings from various Tribal, Slavic and Aryan Communities walk barefoot. Those wishing, who for the first time decided to walk on the coals in order to purify and strengthen their Spirit, the Community members lead by the hand through the Fiery Circle.

This holiday is inextricably linked with another event of antiquity. In ancient times, God Perun freed his sisters from captivity in the Caucasus and sent them to purify themselves in the waters of the Sacred Iriy (Irtysh) and in the Sour Cream Clean Lake (Zaisan Island). This event is also narrated in the fifth ball of Songs of the Gamayun Bird.

Due to the fact that Kupala is the Patron God of the Heavenly Hall of the Horse in the Svarog Circle, on this day it is customary to bathe horses, braid colorful ribbons into their manes and decorate them with wildflowers.

Khors - the God of the Sun among the Slavs, the God of the solar disk, was widely revered in all Slavic lands. The tribal memory transferred this god to such kind words as a good round dance - the oldest sacred dance, holding hands and leading him, our ancestors thereby welcomed Khors, merging with him with common energy and becoming a particle of God.
Until now, among many Slavic peoples, the solar disk is denoted by the word "horo".
And the ancient sanctuaries of Khors and other Gods were called mansions, hence the word Temple.

Yarilo - Slavic god of fertility, spring, an ardent god of awakening nature and the spring Sun, inspiration and youth, natural strength, love delight and fighting rage. He is the very embodiment of the solar jari - a riot of vitality that raises ears of corn filled with power to the sky. It is embodied in a person as a strong will to continue his Family and the will to live in general.

Lel - love passion, the god of love and marriages. He was portrayed as a handsome and cheerful fair-haired shepherd boy. Who, playing the gentle melody of love on his magic pipe awakens passion in the hearts of Slavic boys and girls!
We still have the Tribal memory of this beautiful and cheerful god of love, innocent passion, this is the word that we use to this day - “cherish”, that is, love, undead ...
In some Slavic languages, the Stork, which was considered the sacred bird of Lel, is called - Lelka!

StriBog - the old God, the grandfather of the winds The deity of the air, the sky. This is the old and mighty God, whose dominion extends in the space between Heaven and Earth. Stribog controls elemental forces: lightning, winds, storms, whirlwinds and hurricanes. They turned to him if they wanted to influence the weather. Stribog was revered by the ancients as the destroyer of all kinds of evil intentions and atrocities. Mentioned in "The Tale of Igor's Campaign" "Behold the winds, Stribozh's grandchildren, blow from the sea with arrows on Igor's brave regiments"

Chur - God is the patron, protector of native lands, borders, protects the hearth of the home. He protects the patrimonial possessions from unclean forces Since ancient times, a conspiracy has been preserved from evil spirits and all sorts of troubles, which we still use, saying “Chur, me” or “Chur, on your tongue” to protect yourself from an unkind word.
His name goes back to ancient times, when the Great Deified Ancestor was called Chura, Ancestor.

Chernobog is the dark hypostasis of the supreme Slavic Deity of the Family, Chernobog is the lord of Navi, Darkness and the Pekelny kingdom.
Embodies the universal forces of destruction and change for subsequent rebirth at a new level.

Marena - in Slavic mythology, the goddess of death, responsible with the seasonal rituals of dying and resurrection of nature, as well as with the rituals of causing rain. In the spring rituals of the Slavs, Madder was called a straw effigy - the embodiment of death (mora) and winter, which was drowned, burned during the celebration of the ancient holiday of Maslenitsa at the time of the Spring equinox, which was intended to ensure the harvest. Marena can be asked to destroy all the bad and evil that you have accumulated.

Triglav is the unity of the three main essences-hypostases of the gods and the embodiment of the ancient Slavic vision of the universal world - these three worlds are Yav, Nav, Rule. - Svarog (Right), Perun (Yav) and Veles (Nav). This is the deity of the trinity of the way of the world, which reflects the very essence of our world order.

GOD SEMARGL (Fire god)- The Highest God, the keeper of the Eternally Living Fire and the guardian of the exact observance of all the Fiery Rites and Fiery Purifications.

Semargl accepts Fiery Gifts, Trebs and bloodless Sacrifices at ancient Slavic and Aryan holidays, especially on Krasnogor, on the Day of God Kupala and on the Supreme Day of God Perun, being an intermediary between people and all the Heavenly Gods.

The Fire God Semargl is the Patron God of the Hall of the Heavenly Serpent in the Svarog Circle.

The Fire God gladly blesses all people from the Clans of the Great Race, who, with a pure Soul and Spirit, observe all the Heavenly Laws and the Many-Wise Commandments of the Light Gods and Ancestors.

Semargl is also called upon in the treatment of sick animals and people, in order to save the sick from various ailments and diseases. When a person's temperature rose, they said that the Fire God settled in the Soul of the sick person. For Semargl, like a Fire Dog, fiercely fights against ailments and diseases, which, like enemies, have made their way into the body or Soul of the sick person. Therefore, it is considered unacceptable to bring down the patient's elevated temperature. by the most the best place a bath is considered to be cleansed from ailments.

GOD KOLYADA - the Supreme God, who controls the Great Changes in the life of the Clans of the Great Race and the descendants of the Heavenly Clan.

In ancient times, the Supreme God Kolyada granted many Clans who moved to the western lands a system for calculating seasonal time for field work - the Calendar (Kolyada Dar), as well as his Wise Vedas, leads and instructions.

Kolyada is the Patron God of military people and Priests. Kolyada was often depicted with a sword in his hand, and the blade of the sword was pointed down.

The sword, pointing down, in ancient times meant the preservation of the Wisdom of the Gods and Ancestors, as well as the unshakable adherence to the Heavenly Laws, as established by God Svarog for all the Halls of the Svarog Circle.

The holiday in honor of God Kolyada falls on the day of the winter solstice, this holiday is also called Menari, i.e. Day of Change. On a holiday, groups of men dressed in the skins of various animals (mummers) walked around the yards, who were called the squads of Kolyada. They sang hymns glorifying Kolyada and arranged special round dances around sick people in order to heal them.

And finally, a little about Domovoy:
In Rus', the brownie is directly called the owner, hostess. In fact, the brownie is the ideal of the owner, as the Russian person understands him: he sees every little thing, tirelessly busies himself and makes sure that everything is in order and ready - here he helps the worker, there he corrects his mistake.
If he likes housing, then he serves the household and their elder, looks after the whole house and yard "more than the master's eye", looks after family interests and takes care of the property "more than a caring peasant."
The brownie only cares about his relatives, his house, his yard, and that is why they call him a brownie, these names indicate the space within which his power is honored and gifts and gifts are brought to him.

A few centuries ago, life was different. The people who inhabited the very territories on which civilization is built today wore different clothes.

They thought differently, their attitude was different. The feeling of fear in those days was caused not by broken nails and an overdue loan, but by hunger and war.

When fear came into the hearts and minds of the people, they prayed. This is similar to today's reaction of believers of different religions, only people of those times prayed to pagan shrines.

Rus' was pagan. And there were many gods: we know some names from films and books, others are beyond our knowledge.

To study ourselves, we study our history. Our ancestors believed that adversity means the wrath of the gods, and a good harvest is their gift.

Today we still do not know what awaits us on the other side of life, where dead people go.

But what if pagan gods really exist, and the fact that we have changed religions and take pagan mythology as a fairy tale is a manifestation of their will?

In paganism, people believed in the existence of many gods. Legends were written about each of them, each had its own signs.

Carving a sign on axes and swords, the knights went into battle, confident that they were supported by a higher power. Women drew amulets, protecting the house and children from troubles.

There are not so many differences between Christianity and Islam. Orthodoxy involves the same rituals: wearing a pectoral cross for protection, keeping icons in the house and transport, turning to shrines for help.

Faith has always saved people. It is not given to man to know for sure whether miracles are will higher powers, or is it the result of absolute faith, the placebo effect.

Pagan gods:

There are many more gods. In western and eastern Rus', they differed. Their list is so extensive that many deities had names, but people did not know their history.

Pagan symbols of the gods and prayers of the Slavs

There are prayers in every religion. People asked for protection and help from higher powers. The prayer inspired confidence that their request was heard, that they would really be helped.

It gave a sense of calm. Many believers were considered healers, their faith was so strong that it helped to heal from diseases.

And today there are grandmothers who successfully treat diseases. Even serious cases, when medicine is powerless, can be treated by healers.

And there is no information: how the treatment takes place. What these women do: turn to dark forces, ask God for help, or simply skillfully control energy flows.

Here is an example of a pagan prayer:

"Knock Knock! Let sleep come to you, and ailments recede. I command you to sleep soundly and drown in night dreams.

Let all gloomy thoughts pass by your head! If you sleep soundly, then you will be healthy! I command you: sleep (name).

Conspiracies also existed in pagan culture. People reinforced prayers with signs, carving them on the head of the bed, the handle of the weapon. The symbols of the gods were carried with them like a pectoral cross.

This is how the sign of Veles looks like:

This is one of the designations of Perun:

This is a symbol of the god Rod:

The Slavs carved symbols of the gods and other signs on their bodies so that protection would always be with them:

Hierarchy scheme

Pagan rulers had different powers. We list them in descending order of strength and power:

• Horse.
• Yarilo.
• Dazhdbog.
• Svarog.
• Perun.
• Stribog.
• Veles.
• Lada.
• Chernobog.
• Mokosh.
• Paraskeva Friday.
• Moraine.

How to find a patron by date of birth

You can determine your Slavic patron by date of birth.

Some facts amaze with their accuracy no worse than the signs of the zodiacs:

For the first time this series was published in the Kirovograd journal "Threshold", here it is presented in an even more complete form. Then the code was published by us in the book by D. GAVRILOV, A. NAGOVITSYN. "Gods of the Slavs. Paganism. Tradition”, — M.: Refl-Book, 2002. 464 p.

A distinctive feature of this list is that it is tied to the dates of the pagan folk calendar. It should be noted, however, that all dates are given for central Russia and may vary depending on the latitude and longitude of the celebration. Added quotes from a number of previously inaccessible to us Western medieval primary sources on the beliefs of the Slavs.

Let us also mention such a curious hypothesis of the researcher Sergei Pivovarov - Svyatich - from the "Circle of Ber" that the pantheon could not exceed 33 true names of the gods. This is a sacred number for the Vedic Tradition.

Then it remains to be assumed that some of the gods named below are heiti (alegorical remembrance), so the mother goddess could have “pseudonyms” Lada, Priya, Rozhanitsa, Koruna, Karna ... And the daughter goddess could have heiti - Lelya, Rozhena, Zhelya, Wow…

THE FIRST, OLDEST GODS AND GODDESSES

1. KIND AND BIRTH

ROD - the Existing, the One, the progenitor of the gods and the creator of the world, “The Almighty, who is the only immortal and undying creator, I will blow a man on the face of the spirit of life, and be a man in my soul I live: it’s not Rod, sitting on the air, a mosque on the ground piles - and the children are in that…”, is mentioned, for example, in the teachings against paganism “On the inspiration of the holy spirit”, “The Word about Idols”, “The Word of Isaiah the Prophet”, the manuscript of the Chetya Menaia from the Old Russian confessor. Perhaps, like Stribog, i.e. the stern (old) god-father is mentioned in the "Tale of Igor's Campaign" and Russian chronicles, and also as God in the agreement between Igor's Rus and the Romans. Helmold reported: “Among the diverse deities to whom they dedicate fields, forests, sorrows and joys, they (Slavs) recognize and one god, ruling over them in heaven, recognize that he is omnipotent, cares only about heavenly affairs, other gods obey him, perform the duties assigned to them, and that they come from his blood, and each of them is all the more important, the closer he stands to this god of gods. Such a “God of Gods” among the Western Slavs is called Sventovita, most likely, this is one of the main hypostases of the Sort.

“To that things Boyan and the first refrain, meaningful, speech: “Neither cunning, nor much, nor much torture of the Judgment of God.” It would be funny if the grandson of Veles turned to a different court, except for the pagan, whether Veles or the court of the Family. We assume that here, under the name of God, it is precisely Rod that is hidden. The genus is accompanied by women in labor. In “Questions of Kirik we find”, a monument of literature of the XII century: “Already to Rod and Rozhanitsa to eat bread and cheese and honey ...”, somehow connected with fate. Probably, if Rod is called the Court, then women in labor are called Sudinites - and most importantly, with the posthumous life of a pagan, the rebirth of the “male principle” through the “female”.

Sometimes only one Rozhanitsa is mentioned: “From the time of deer to put the treb to Atremis and Artemis, the reksha Rod and the Woman in Childbirth, the Iguptians are the same. So even before the word, until the end of these words, and you began to lay the treb to the Family and Rozhanitsa, ... and now the Egyptians lay the treb Nile and fire, river Nil the fruit-bearer and the grower of the class. In a bright hypostasis, Rod is compared with Apollo-Atremid (Artemis): "Artemi, call Rod to the south." It is curious that Sreznevsky uses the word “gehena, unquenchable fire” as a synonym for “rod”. According to Sreznevsky, the clan in the PJP is opposed to the Christian God, that is, it is equated with his opponent, Satan, equal to him in “appointment”: “Those who serve God and do his will, and not the Family, nor the Women in Childbirth, a vain idol, but you sing song of demons to Rodow and Women in Childbirth". Many consider Lada and Lelya to be women in labor (see), although they are never called that in PJP. It is clear that women in labor are the maidens of life and fate, who “they cut their hair from the first time and the women cook porridge for a meeting of women in childbirth”, and people back in the 13th century “preparing a meal for razhanits and performing demonic sips” , and not for women in childbirth "" Setting a meal for women in childbirth i other all the services of the devil"

In the sixteenth century, in the “Charter of the Monk Savva” we find such a confessional question: “didn’t she slut ungodly fornications with women, didn’t she pray to pitchforks, or Rod and women in childbirth, and Perun, and Khors, and Mokosh, drank and ate?”

Modern pagans put idols to Rod in the form of wooden phallic symbols painted in red. It may be just a stone pile, which has analogues in India, where the phallic linga symbolizes Rudra. Such idols are always placed in an open place and the higher, the better. For the manufacture of idols, it is best for Rod to use beech, elm, ash, but since these trees are rare, it is proposed to replace them with maple.

Trebs of the Family are still unconsciously brought in the form of "Easter" eggs to the graves of their ancestors. A special honoring of the Family falls on April 21 (Orthodox Rodion-ice-breaker). This holiday is called in pagan Radogoshch, and Svarozhich himself is honored as a solar deity.

2. STRIBOG, Stribo, Striba

God the father, stern, old god, grandfather of the winds (probably can be correlated with the Indian god Rudra), is mentioned in the "Tale of Igor's Campaign" ("Behold the winds, Stribozh vnutsi, blow from the sea with arrows on the brave regiments of Igor"), in Russian chronicles, in the retellings of Strykovsky, “The Word of John Chrysostom ... what was the first trash they believed in idols and laid rites to them ...” speaks of him as a deity of the sky, air and wind. Probably one of the names of the Family or the side of the Family, as the father of the gods. It blows life (spirit) into human bodies through the wind. His day is Saturday. It is no coincidence that Saturday is a parental day, the day of Satros - Saturn, the parent of the gods.

In later sources, it was depicted as a single head, acquiring chthonic features of the Viya-Vey type. There is a description of a pagan temple on the Kyiv land of the 16th century of the era of dual faith.

Associated with the lunar cult, the constant commemoration of Stribog next to Dazhdbog, a solar deity, leads just to this idea that the old god gives way to the young one, and the Moon to the red Sun: “eat the idol sacrifice ... believe Stribog, Dazhdbog and Pereplut, like him spinning drink in roses"

Perhaps one of Stribog's messengers is a swift. The pagan celebration of Stribog itself was probably on the first day of the last summer month. According to the new style, this is August 21st. The folk calendar these days is replete with proverbs regarding the winds - the grandchildren of Stribog: "The windmills drove the dust across the wide world, sobbed through the red summer." “The wind-running myrons drive dust around the world, they moan about the red summer.”

3. SVETOVIT and / or Belobog

Svantevit is a real (“good”) god, the god of fertility according to the Czech medieval dictionary “Mater Verborum” - “Ares, bellum”, “Mavors: Mavortem poete dicunt martem”, where he is also likened to the god of war Ares. In the same source: "Belboh: Belbog - beel, baal".

God, opposing Chernobog, is one of the sides of the Sort.

Sventovit, Svyatovit, Svetovik, Svetich - the god of the White Light, the supreme god of the Western Slavic pantheon, the horseman god fighting Darkness. Mentioned in the "Slavic Chronicle" by Helmold, described in detail by Saxo Grammar in the "Acts of the Danes", as the main god, "the god of the gods", "the most convincing in the answers." It is he who is most often meant by the name Belobog among the Slavs, functionally correlated with Apollo, i.e. thus Atremis-Artemis, brother of Artemis-Lady. “Hence the evil god the Devil and Chernobog, that is, the Black God, the good Belbog, that is, the white god, was called. The figure of this idol, carved in stone, can still be seen on Ruyan, on the Witt Peninsula, popularly referred to as Wittold, as it were, “Ancient Wit”. With a big head and thick beard, he looks more like a monster than a fictional god” (“History of the Kamensk diocese”, 17th century). And a century earlier it was reported: “The image of the idol of Ruyana, carved on a stone, can be seen in the village of Altenkirchen, in the vestibule of the temple. More like a monstrous evil demon than any god; the former inhabitants of the island called him Svyatovit, the current Vitold. (David Khitreus. Saxon Chronicle, 16th century). Thus, Svetovit and Belobog are one and the same essence, but under different names of the One Good God.

Comparing the Black and White gods, Peter Albin in the “Misney Chronicle” (1590) testifies to another name for the god of light: “XI. Chernobog was a black god; like the Utrobog, the god of the dawn. Undoubtedly, a similar god was also worshiped, which probably meant the morning dawn.

Sventovit - a predictor and giver of earthly blessings - crops, the sanctuary of Arkona is famous for the fact that the priests predict the future (guessing by the tread of a horse and a horn).

The Arkon idol, according to Saxo the Grammar, "gave tribute to the entire Slavic land." Helmold's Rugs or Ruyans in the Slavic Chronicle, to whom the temple of Sventovit belonged, are reported as a tribe that is most respected by other Slavs, the priest was honored there above the prince, and without the decision of the rugs close to the gods, nothing was done in public affairs according to Adam of Bremen. It can be assumed that he is a lawmaker, like Apollo among the Greeks. Frenzel speaks of him as "De Svantevito, Deo Soraborum Slavorumque supremo"

Sventovit is identified with the four-faced image of the upper tier of the Zbruch idol. The same image of Sventovit stood in the famous Temple in the city of Arkona. The idol was exterminated by Bishop Absalon in 1168.

Saxo Grammaticus writes: “The city of Arkona lies on the top of a high rock; from the north, east and south it is protected by natural protection ... from the western side it is protected by a high embankment of 50 cubits ... In the middle of the city lies an open square on which rises a wooden temple, of fine workmanship, but honored not so much by the splendor of architecture, but by the majesty of God, to whom an idol is erected here. The entire outer side of the building shone with skillfully made bas-reliefs of various figures, but ugly and crudely painted. Only one entrance was into the interior of the temple, surrounded by a double fence ... In the temple itself stood a large, exceeding human height, idol, with four heads, on the same number of necks, of which two came out of the chest and two - to the ridge, but in such a way that from both front and both rear heads, one looked to the right, and the other to the left. His hair and beard were cut short, and in this, it seemed, the artist conformed to the habit of ruddy. IN right hand the idol held a horn made of various metals, which was usually filled every year with wine from the hands of a priest for divination about the next year's fertility; the left hand was likened to a bow. Outerwear went down to the berets, which were made up of various types of trees and were so skillfully connected to the knees that only a close examination could distinguish the fugues. The legs were level with the ground, the foundation was made under the floor. In a small distance, the bridle and saddle of the idol with other accessories were visible. The viewer was most struck by a huge sword, a scabbard, the black of which, in addition to beautiful carved forms, was distinguished by silver trim ... In addition, this god also had temples in many other places, ruled by priests of lesser importance. In addition, he had a horse with him, completely white, from which it was considered impiety to pull out a hair from a mane or tail ... Svyatovit was symbolized by various signs, in particular, carved eagles and banners, the main of which was called Stanitsa ... The power of this small piece of canvas was stronger than the power of the prince. »

So, the idol of the God of Light is four-faced (it is possible that two heads are female), the symbols of Svetovit are a sword, a horn and, possibly, a bow, as shown in a number of medieval Polish engravings. Trebs to Svetovit and/or Belobog were brought in the form of a tall pie, which was cut into four parts, and possibly, and then spread on all four sides, in accordance with the direction of Svetovit's gaze. The wine was sweet, because insects flocked to its tart smell - witnesses of beliefs claim that the idol of Belobog was covered with flies. Because of this, he was identified with Beelzebub. Actually we are talking only that the trebs were brought sweet, probably libations were made directly into the mouth of the idol or they were smeared with sacrificial honey. One of the main holidays of Svetovit-Belobog can be considered the calendar Tausen - the autumn solstice, when the harvest is harvested, and you need to take care of a prosperous new one - next year.

4. VELES and / or Chernobog

Chernobog is a Navi, an "evil" god according to Helmold's "Slavic Chronicle". In the Serbian-Lusatian pantheon, he was named Czernebog by A. Frenzel (1696), and the first in this pantheon was the opponent of the Black God - Sventovit.

Al-Masudi in the tenth century gives a description of the sanctuary of a certain god on the black mountain: “... in it (the building on the black mountain) they (the Slavs) had a large idol in the form of a man or Saturn, presented in the form of an old man with a crooked stick in his hand, with which he moves the bones of the dead from the graves. Under the right foot are images of heterogeneous ants, and under the left - black crows, black wings and others, as well as images of strange Khabash and Zanj (i.e. Abyssinians).

Peter Albin in the “Misney Chronicle” says: “the Slavs revered Chernobog as an evil deity for this, that they imagined that all evil was in his power, and therefore asked him for mercy, they reconciled him, so that in this or afterlife He didn't harm them." Helmold describes that when the evil god Chernobog was honored at a feast among the Slavs, then when the guests were carried around with a cup, everyone uttered curses, not words of blessing. However, everyone understands to the best of their upbringing: “The amazing superstition of the Slavs, because at their festivities and feasts they surround a circular bowl, proclaiming words over it - I won’t say a blessing, but a curse, in the name of the good and evil gods, since they expect from a good god happy share, and from evil - unhappy; therefore, the evil god is even called in their own language the devil or Chernobog.

According to the myth cited by Sreznevsky, Satan (read Chernobog) will defile the soul of a person created by God, in fact, according to Christian dogmas, this is so. According to another myth cited by Afanasyev, Satan (Chernobog) created man from the sweat of God. There is a similar myth in Laurentian Chronicle. Chernobog is the co-creator of the World.

In the mythology of the Balts, the black god is called Vielona, ​​Wellns or Vels, which actually means “devil”, “devil” is the constant opponent of the Thunderer and the owner of the world of the dead, the jester and the trickster. One does not have to be seven spans in the forehead in order not to notice the identity of this name and the similarity of this image with the Slavic Veles.

His name varies in the lists of chronicles and teachings against paganism - Veles, Volos, Vlas, Vlasiy, Vlas - "cattle god", "cattle", i.e. wild, fierce, bestial. This is confirmed by the fact that Veles is likened to Pan - the god of the Wild (Mater Verborum - "Veles: Veles - Pan, ymago hircina"). The correlation of Satan with the goat in the Middle Ages does not need proof.

Russian chronicles according to the treaties of Oleg and Svyatoslav with the Greeks: In the summer of 6415 (911): “Caesar Leon and Alexander made peace with Olgm, imishesya by tribute and company went between themselves, kissing themselves cross, and Olga led the company and his husband along Russian law and swearing by their weapons and Perunm, their gods and Volos cattle God and affirming the world. In the summer of 6479 (971). "... Yes, we have an oath from God, but we believe in him from both Perun and Volos, the cattle of God."

Probably Veles and the giver of wealth (through cattle, the main wealth of nomadic tribes is the “god of cattle” (“On the idols of Vladimirov”), and later simply the god of wealth, which is earned by labor throughout life.

There is every reason to believe that it is Veles who monitors the implementation of laws and treaties, he is the father and judge of truth, like Hermes and Odin. Therefore, “The second (idol) Volos, the god of cattle, was with them (pagans) in great honor” (“Gustinsky Chronicle”).

The mention of Veles in the contract, next to Perun, the patron of the prince and the squad, is not accidental. Mercury was also invoked by the Germans in tandem with the warlike Mars. And the sacred couple here is not accidental - a wise, old, not entirely positive in the Christian sense of the word "cattle god" and a strong, young warrior-ruler.

Despite the obvious attributes of blackness, Veles, like Odin, Mercury and Hermes, is the god of science and wisdom. In the "Word of Igor's Campaign" we find "Whether it was sung, prophetic Boyane, Velesov's granddaughter ...". His name is also found in the late recorded ritual text of the Macedonian Bulgarian-Pomaks, the so-called "Veda of the Slavs" in ed. Verkovich (see, for example, IV, 5. 5-13).

God le Vlas le
Alive ma Yuda taught
Yes, this is a Clear Book,
yes, sit down and write.
Taught ma, God, taught.
And you, God, yes ma teach
Yes, right, kusher-ta.
Yes, you will give me three hundred oxen,
Three hundred oxen, three hundred blood

In the apocryphal “Walking of the Virgin through the torments”, Veles is directly called a demon, but he is also called an “evil god”, almost like Helmold’s Chernobog in the “Slavic Chronicle” (it is understood that there were good gods, pay attention to the plural): pagans “these are those who were called gods; the sun and the moon, earth and water, beasts and reptiles, who in their hardness of heart gave names to the gods, as to people, and those who revered Utrius, Troyan, Khors, Veles, turning demons into gods. And people believed in these evil gods.”

Literally, according to another list: “God made a creature of faith, south of us, created a creature to work, then they all the gods called the sun and the month the earth and water, animals and reptiles, then it is more net and a member of the documentary of the Trojan chrsa veles peroun to the Gods, turning the evil demon into faith , hitherto obsessed with darkness by evil, for the sake of this, to urinate tacos.

Next to him, Veles, in the list are Troyan, who, according to Serbian legends, fears sunlight and a goat-eared giant, as well as Horse. “The Tale of Igor’s Campaign” testifies to a certain night path of Khors, for Vseslav prowled in the form of a wolf precisely at night: “Vseslav prince is judging by people, he is a prince of the city, and he himself is a wolf prowling in the night; from Kiev doriskashe to the chickens of Tmutorokan, the path of the great Khorsov and the wolf is broken by a wolf.

The Czechs, even after adopting Christianity, remembered Veles as one of the most powerful "demons", sacrificing black chickens and pigeons to him. In "Word of St. Gregory" it is said about the worship of the Slavs "to the cattle god and companion and forest god". Those. Veles - the god of cattle, the patron saint of travelers, the god of forests.

The blackness of Veles is evidenced by the absence of his pillar in the pantheon of Prince Vladimir, the pillar of Veles stood separately, not on a hill, but on Podil. Meanwhile, they deal with Veles in Kyiv under Vladimir, sending them to the afterlife along the river, i.e. do not mutilate, but bury the old god. The “Life of Vladimir” says: “And the Hair of the idol ... led the Pochaina river into the river.” By this, allegedly, Vladimir sent Veles, as hitherto Perun, on a voyage to the kingdom of the dead. Reposed, therefore, the two most famous Slavic gods.

However, in Rostov, much later, the stone idol of Veles was destroyed. In the life of Avraamy of Rostov it is said: "The end of Chud worshiped the stone idol, Veles." We pay attention to the sacred location of the idol - the Chudsky end. With Veles, a demon is directly compared, possessing knowledge of hidden treasures. And Abraham, who destroyed the “idol stone” of Volos in Rostov, “almost became a victim of a demon”, which was transformed into its opposite - “into the image of a warrior who slandered him to “Tsar” Vladimir ..”. The demon "accused Abraham of being engaged in sorcery, that he hid from the prince a copper cauldron with money he had found in the ground." This is truly a diabolical mockery worthy of the trickster Loki and the Navi god - Odin.

In the “Tale of the Construction of the City of Yaroslavl”, an 18th-century source dating back to an ancient record, “which, although updated later, nevertheless adequately reflected the true course of events,” it is directly stated that the Magi were priests of the “cattle god”: “To this same multi-executed idol and kermet (temple) was created the life and the Magi vdan, and this unquenchable fire Volos holding and sacrificial smoke to him.” The priest divined from the smoke of the fire, and if he guessed badly, and the fire died out, then the priest was executed. “And these people, by an oath at Volos, promised the prince to live in harmony and give him dues, but they just did not want to be baptized: During the drought, the pagans begged tearfully for their Volos to bring rain down to the earth: In the place where Volos once stood, there are pipes, and the harp, and singing, heard many times, and some dancing was visible. When cattle walked in this place, they were subjected to unusual thinness and illness: They said that all this attack was the wrath of Volos, that he turned into an evil spirit in order to crush people, as they crushed him and kermet ".

H.M. Karamzin retells (without reference to the source, but this is essentially one of the variants of the Greater Poland Chronicle) “for the curious” “fables”, in one of which we find: “The Slovene-Russian princes, delighted with such a letter (from Alexander the Great), hung this in his temple on the right side of the idol of Veles ... After a few time, two princes Lyakh (Mamokh, Laloch) and Lachern rebelled from their family, fought the Greek land and went under the most reigning city: there, near the sea, Prince Lachern laid his head (where was created after the Blachernae Monastery ...) "

With a high degree of probability, we can say that Veles is a vodka and shepherd of the dead, like his Baltic counterparts, like St. Nicholas.

“The fiery river runs, across the fiery river the viburnum bridge, along that viburnum bridge there is an old mater man; carries in his hands a golden saucer, a silver feather ... relieves seventy diseases from the servant of God.

The werewolf god, the master of magic and the secret, the ruler of the crossroads, the Navi god, as we showed in our previous book, where a functional analysis of the images of Thoth, Hermes, Mercury, Odin, Veles was carried out.

One of his names is Mokos - the husband of Mokosh, the goddess of fate (we know at least four mentions of Mokosh-Mokos in the masculine gender) - thus Veles himself, who appears in fairy tales as an old man with a guiding ball - the god of Luck. Note that in the Indo-European tradition, gods with similar names also had similar functions. For example, Roman Lares, Russian Mavkas, mermaids, Roman Fauns and Fauns, Indian Adityas, etc.

Perhaps he is the Chernobog of the Slavs, although he is also embodied in the Rule. Veles is identified by B.A. Rybakov with a three-faced image on the lower tier of the Zbruch idol, supporting the foundation of the world.

Among the Slovenes of Priilmensky, Volos-Veles, probably, also acted under the name of the Lizard or Volkhov. The veneration fell on December 19 - Nikola the Water Volkh, Volkhov, Volkhovets - also the son of the Lizard, the werewolf god, the god of hunting and prey similar to Veles, probably the owner of the waters and, possibly, the patron saint of warriors, there are indications of him in the "Word of the Regiment Igor”, epics about Volkh Vseslavich and Sadko, the First Novgorod Chronicles, as Vuk the Fire Serpent is described by the Serbs. Ancestor - Gray prophetic Wolf from Russian fairy tales. Hypostasis of Veles. His day is celebrated in central Russia on October 2, this is the beginning of the hunting season. Volosins are the wives of Veles, the constellation Pleiades according to I.I. Sreznevsky (they are Vlasozhelishchi, Baba) with reference to his work by Afanasy Nikitin “Journey beyond three seas”: “Hairs and a stake entered the dawn, and the elk stands with its head to the east”.

Volosozhary - Milky Way - "Veles scratched and scattered his hair." By ancient ideas(Egyptians, Germans, Slavs), the Universe appeared from a heavenly cow. The Milky Way is her milk. Veles is the son of the Cow of the Universe. Elk - Constellation Ursa Major - the palaces of Velesov.

1. The "cattle god" is the master of the Wild.
2. Vodchiy on all Roads, Mr. Ways, patron of all travelers
3. The owner of Navi, the ruler of the Unknown, the Black God
4. Posthumous judge and lifetime tester.
5. A powerful wizard and lord of magic, a werewolf.
6. The patron of trade, mediator in contracts and interpreter of laws.
7. Giver of wealth.
8. Patron of those who know and seek, teacher of arts, including skaldic
9. God of luck.

Veles Day is Wednesday, stone is opal or obsidian, metal is lead or mercury, wood is spruce, pine, walnut or ash (yew), it is from them that amulets, staffs, idols and other items associated with the cult of Veles should be made. The myth of the northern sorcerer-god is, of course, somewhat different from that of the Southern Tradition. Places for the device of victims to Veles and dedications to him are dense coniferous forests. Often impassable with ugly trees and deadwood, Veles is volohat and loves mosses and lichens, as well as mushrooms, perhaps they set an idol for him or laid trebs at the fork and crossroads of three forest roads. Three evergreen trees (often pines - hence the “get lost in three pines”) and anthills are also signs of Velesov. If on flat terrain - then the same intersections, but with a lone tree or stone on them.

A black raven or an owl, a cat, a snake or already - all these are harbingers of Veles' look at a pagan during the ceremony.

On the temples of Veles could hang not only letters with letters, as in the legend, but also cattle skulls or horns. Probably, the idol Veles himself was crowned with horns - hence his identification with Satan, or a crooked stick. Veles was sacrificed with copper, for he is the god of well-being and prosperity, wool and fur, and they also poured beer and kvass - those drinks that he taught people to prepare according to one of the legends.

Images of Veles' idols may contain images of the same horn (or be horned), as well as a dead human head in the hand of a god. The idols of Veles, according to the reconstruction of D. Gromov, were placed not on the top of the hills, but on a slope or in a lowland, closer to the waters. His days, Velesov, were celebrated especially solemnly on December 22-24, December 31, January 2 and 6 - on the days of St. Nicholas the Winter, on February 24 they asked the "cattle god" to knock the horns off Winter. And they also honored him on the days of honoring St. Nicholas Veshny - May 22 (Yarilin Day, semik). July 12 - when they put the first sheaf and begin to mow, harvesting hay for livestock. Between August 18 and 20, Veles was curled in a tuft on a harvested field “on a beard” - Nikolin's beard.

We believe that under the heity - the divine pseudonym - the Black God of the Slavs could be hiding exactly the wise ancient Veles, because the ethics of the peoples of the Northern Tradition is not the ethics of Good and Evil, it is based on the concept of justice. Throughout the ages, the pagan tradition of confrontation between the Black and White gods continues and manifests itself at all levels. The first - Old - pacifies nature, the second - Young - revives it, and with it he rises himself, full of strength. In the spring, the young replaces the old, and the New replaces the Former. Then the cycle repeats, and so it will be forever.

Veles is the patron of the zodiac Capricorns, who climb up, stubborn in their striving, and there is no such abyss from which they would not be saved, and there is no such peak that they would not take.

5. TRIGLAVE

From the "Biography of Otto of Bamberg" we learn about the existence among the Slavs in the city of Stettin "a three-headed image of a deity that had three heads on one body and was called Triglav."

Triglav - the highest deity, according to the medieval historian Ebbon - "summus paganorum deus", with a golden bandage on his lips and eyes (see "The Life of Otto, Bishop of Bamberg"):

“III.1. 1126 Szczecin: includes three mountains, of which the middle and highest is dedicated to the supreme god of the pagans Triglav; on it there is a three-headed statue, whose eyes and mouth are covered with a golden bandage. As the priests of idols explain, the main god has three heads, because he oversees the three kingdoms, that is, heaven, earth and the underworld, and covers his face with a bandage, since he hides the sins of people, as if not seeing or talking about them.

And according to the historian Gerbord, he rules over the three worlds - heaven, earth and the underworld, is involved in divination through a huge black horse. Stetin, visited by Gerbord himself according to his testimony c. 1120, like that of Ebbon, located on three hills, in itself was a place of worship for this god with three heads. Triglavu Temple was located on the highest of the three places. Having taken possession of the god pillar, Otto destroyed the body, and took the connected three heads as a trophy and sent it to Rome, as proof of the conversion of the Pomeranians. As we know Belobog-Sventovita, also the highest deity, the god of gods, in turn, a white horse is dedicated, but the rite of divination is similar.

On the Zbruch idol there is a three-faced deity in the lower tier, and this leads us to believe that the German authors called Chernobog Triglav. This is supported by the worship of the Slavs of Stetin, according to the same Gerbord, to a nut, and this is a Navi tree associated with the lower world of the Lizard. Later Serbian sources say that Troyan is afraid of sunlight and has goat ears, this is also evidence of the character's chthonicity.

However, among the Western Slavs, many deities are many-headed and many-sided, however, only one is named in terms of "heads". Among the names there is neither Semiglav, nor Pyatiglava, nor Chetyrehglav ... And what, it would seem, is easier - to call Svetovit - Four-faced. The conclusion suggests itself. The Germans decided that Triglav is a deity, but we believe that Triglav is not a separate, even the highest god, but the very principle of unity and opposition of its Three components. "Mater Verborum" characterizes this name in this way: "Trihlav - Triceps, qui habet capita tria capree."

According to medieval Polish sources, Triglav is a three-headed giant, from which the world is created by cutting off his head by God. Thus, Chernobog, Belobog and a certain Khambog, associated with the color red, allegedly appear, but the latter seems to us newspeak, although it does not contradict logic. In a treatise of the 17th century by the author - Abraham Frentzel - one of the chapters is devoted to a certain Trigla, one must think that this is just the way the image of Triglav is changed. De Trigla, Dea Poli, Soli Salique. The line about Trigle should probably be translated not as "Goddess of fields and earth", but "Goddess of heaven, earth and prosperity." Fields - from an erroneous interpretation of Poli from Slavic. Рolus - vault of heaven + solum - earth, soil + salus - well-being, security + -que - and.

Due to a similar misunderstanding, the name of Triglav began to move closer to the name of the ancient emperor Rome Troyan. Troyan is mentioned in one of the lists of the apocrypha "The Virgin's Passage through Torment", in the series "those who revered Utrius, Troyan, Khors, Veles, turning demons into gods"; in the semi-statutory manuscript of the Tolstoy collection among "Perun and Khors, Dy and Troyan", as well as in the "Word and Revelation of the Holy Apostles", where he is compared with the Roman emperor Troyan. In the Tale of Igor's Campaign, Troyanov's path, the centuries of Troyanov and the land of Troyanov are mentioned, it is possible that there was such a prince who preceded even Kiy, Shchek and Khoriv - just three brothers. And if the third son in the family is called Tretiak, then the father of three sons is Troyan, Troyak. Perhaps, if such brothers really came to the Dnieper from the Carpathians, they called themselves descendants of the famous conqueror of the Dacians. Or the Trojan centuries - when three brothers ruled, and not some kind of Trojan? “O Boyana, the nightingale of the old days! Anyhow, you tickled the regiments, galloping, glory, along the mental tree, flying with your mind under the clouds, weaving the glory of both sexes of this time, growing into the path of Trojan through the fields to the mountains!

“There were the days of Trojan, the summer of Yaroslavl passed; there were half of Olgova, Olga Svyatoslavlich. “Already more, brethren, not a merry time has risen, the desert has already covered the force. Resentment arose in the forces of Dazhdbozh’s grandson, she entered the land of Troyan as a virgin, splashed her swan wings on the blue sea near the Don: splash, lose fat times. "At the seventh age of Troy, Vseslav is the lot about the girl I love myself." It is obvious to us that the concept of Triglav and Troyan should not be brought together, these are different things.

In general, there is no god Triglav. Triglav we pagans call the idea of ​​the ancient Indo-Europeans about the threefold structure of the world.

6. Svetlusha

According to the Czech medieval dictionary "Mater Verborum", the Western Slavs have the goddess of Light - Svetlusha - "Lucina dea", and, as we assume, this is the female incarnation of the white god Sventovit, or his wife - he himself is "Ares, bellum", "Mavors : Mavortem poete dicunt martem.

There is also a certain Svetlonosha - the goddess of love according to the same "Mater Verborum". The Vendians were also called the spirits dancing in the meadows.

7. MAKOSH(b), Mokosch

Goddess of all Destiny (kosh, kosht - fate, the syllable "ma" can be abbreviated to mean the word "mother"), the eldest of the goddesses straight of fate, in late time was considered the patroness of spinning. It can be correlated with the beliefs of the ancient Greeks in the spinners of fate - Moir, as well as with the Germanic spinners of fate - the Norns and Frigg - the wife of Odin, spinning on her Wheel. Due to the fact that the goddesses - the spinners of fate in beliefs appear in threes, she also probably had two sisters or incarnations - a happy fate and an unhappy one, lucky and unlucky.

Makosh - the goddess of fertility, the mother of crops, has 12 annual holidays, sometimes depicted with horns (apparently the cult of Makosh - and the Lunar cult, then there are 13 holidays). A characteristic female horned headdress was worn as early as the 19th century at folk festivals. Mentioned in Russian chronicles and numerous teachings against paganism. “Teaching Spiritual Children” in the 16th century warns like this: “Steer before the God of the invisible: people praying to Rod and women in childbirth, Perun, and Apollo, and Mokosh, and Peregina, and don’t come close to any vile gods.”

The only goddess from the pantheon of Prince. Vladimir. The mother of the gods, perhaps the wife or incarnation of Veles-Mokos-Mokosh, correlated with Hekate (the name is often used in the masculine form).

“Mamai is the king ... he began to call on his gods: Perun, Salmanat, Mokosh, Rakliya, Rus and his great assistant Akhmet.” “They put the demand and create ... Mokosh diva .... they smear the goddess Ekatia, they create this maiden and honor Mokosh.

Thus, Makosh is the goddess of witchcraft and the mistress of the Transition from this world to the Other World.

In the lower incarnation, perhaps, she is the famous Baba Yaga (Hel, Kali), in this case we can say that she is the mother of the winds and the mistress of the forest world. Depicted on Russian embroideries between two moose cows-Rozhanitsa, sometimes depicted with a cornucopia. As a result of chthonicity, it has a disproportionately large head in the images. Perhaps Makosh is an image of the most ancient, even Neolithic origin, the Mother Goddess, who is known as the "Neolithic Venus". The most ancient Goddess was the giver of both life and death, the image of her face was considered taboo, had a large head.

Mokosh's Day is Friday, in Orthodoxy the image merged with Paraskeva Friday, i.e. she is the patroness of housewives and wives. One of the days on which Makosh is especially honored is the Friday closest to April 8 - Makosh's Proclamation. And also on October 27, actually Paraskeva Pyatnitsa.

Its metal is silver, its stone is rock crystal and the so-called "moonstone". Makosh the Beast is a cat. The symbol of this goddess is yarn, a ball of wool, a spindle, and they were brought to temples. Mokosh's idols could be made from "female woods", primarily from aspen. The idol of Mokosh could often be horned or have a horn in his hands:

The monk Alberich from the Three Sources in his "Chronicle" of the XI century (according to A. Frenzel, 1712) wrote: “II. 1003 Emperor Henry: subjugated the Vindeliki, a people bordering the Suebi. These vindeliki revered Fortuna; having her idol in the most famous place. They put into his hand a horn full of drink made from water and honey:

A characteristic female horned headdress was worn as early as the 19th century at folk festivals. In any case, she appears to be a tall, portly woman, whose head is crowned with a cap with protruding edges. In her hand (but not the one that Veles has, but in the opposite one) is a cornucopia.

Share, Srecha, Sryashta (Serb.), Meeting, Happiness - a spinner, assistant or younger sister of Makosh, the mother of the lot, Yagishna.

Nedolya, Nesrecha, Nesryashta (Serb.), Misfortune is a spinner, assistant or younger sister of Makosh, the mother of the lot, Yagishna.

So, Makosh herself:

1. Goddess of all Destiny
2. The Great Mother, the goddess of fertility, is associated with the harvest, has 12-13 yearly festivals (and can be celebrated every full moon)
3. The goddess of magic and sorcery, the wife of Veles and the Mistress of the crossroads of the universe between the worlds.
4. Protector and patroness of mistresses.
5. In the lower incarnation, she is the famous Yaga, in this case we can say that she is the mother of the winds, that life and death are equally subject to her.
6. Mistress of Nature.

8. SYTIVRAT or Sytavrat

Mainly, the West Slavic god of fertility, likened in the original source to Saturn, the god of sowing and seeds, according to the Mater Verborum. "Sytivrat - Saturnum pagani illum esse ajunt qui primus ab Olimpo uenit arma Jovis fugiens, - Stracec Sytivratov syn - picus Saturni filius."

Saturn, in turn, is identified with Kronos. In the glosses of Vatserada, the deity of the Vagrians and Slovaks of the type of Saturn is called Sitivrat, Mount Sitna is associated with his name in Slovakia, where “there is an entrance to hell”, and he himself is called a propagandist and a perpetrator. At the same time, the name is associated with the "sower", "sieve" and "light". Serbian "sit" means "light". It is a whirlpool of light. He is the god who turns the sun wheel for the summer and restores the power of fertility to the earth. Its celebration falls on December 17 and coincides with the cronolia or saturnalia.

9. CRUT, Crodo

Also, mainly the West Slavic god, the son of Sytivrat, the god of sacrificial places and fire on them, the father of Svarog, the grandfather of Radegast-Svarozhich, according to "Mater Verborum" - "Radihost vnuk Krtov", was also identified with Saturn. Probably, "stealers" are what this ancient god is watching.

The remnants of the cult of Crodo were caught in the Harz. The idol of Krodov stood on a high, wooded mountain. It was an old man with a bare head, he stood with his bare feet on a fish, was girded with a white woolen bandage, held a wheel in one hand, and a vessel with flowers and fruits in the other (dey grote Duvel tour Harzborg). The presence of the wheel indicates that this god is associated with time, the change of seasons, the same circumstance is indicated by the fruits and flowers in his hands. Perhaps he could also be associated with the change of eras, the "golden age of the Slavs", like the Roman Saturn. Associated with the cult of ancestors and the burning of corpses, it was honored by the Vends on Radunitsa - March 9 and May 1. There is a well-known proverb among the Croats “not all of us will go to the kingdom of the Moles, others to hell”, which may indicate that the kingdom of Crodo corresponded to the “good times” of Saturn or the “islands of the blessed” of Kron, where the shadows of the best of heroes and titans reside.

Korochun, Karachun - a seasonal god from the retinue of Frost (the Novgorod Chronicle says: "the whole autumn rain stood from Mrs. Days to Korochun"). Kerechun or Krochun evening - Christmas Eve or Christmas time. To turn around, to roll a karachun - i.e. cool like a corpse. Perhaps somehow connected with the ancient cult of Krat.

10. SVAROG, Sovarog

The divine blacksmith, a descendant of Sitivrat and Krat, who took over all the chthonic features, leaving Svarog in possession of light, fire and ether, which quite often happens when the pantheon changes, when the once great demiurge gods are replaced by a younger generation of gods, as happened , for example, among the ancient Greeks, when the generations of Uranus (sky) and Kronos were replaced by the Olympians, led by the thunderer Zeus. Svarog is the god-creator and legislator, the father of the Svarozhichs (Perun, Dazhdbog-Radegast, Smagi-Fire and / or Rarog), the demiurge, correlated with Hephaestus, according to the worldview, dating back to the Orphic tradition. Therefore, he is the source of fire and its master. It has much in common with the Finnish Ilmarinen. He creates not with a word, not with magic, unlike Veles, but with his hands, he creates the material world. The difference between Veles and Svarog is akin to the difference between Väinämöinen, the “eternal rune-singer” and the forger Ilmarinen.

With a high degree of probability, we can also say that the pairs Targitai-Koloksai, Svarog-Svarozhich, Kuzma-Demyan go back to one mythologeme. The closest Vedic analogue is the god-creator of the material world Tvashtar. Any forge, any furnace is already the temple of Svarog, therefore, when arranging temples, a modern pagan should remember that. With the wooden idol of Svarog, fire should burn, metal should be heated, and the idol itself should be upholstered with metal. On the temple of Svarog there should be a hammer (or a heavy iron stick-crowbar) and an anvil. It was Svarog who started the Iron Age and taught people how to use iron tools. Sounds pleasant to Svarog - because. he is the first patron of crafts and all craftsmen - blows of hammers, ringing of chains and howling of fire. Trebs of Svarog are brought either with cheese (syrniki) and cottage cheese. The word “cottage cheese” means created, it has the same root as the name Svarog, and is a symbol of heavenly bread. The role of the idol of Svarog can be played by a huge stone, on which the symbols of fire are applied.

Its celebration day falls on November 14 - Svarozhki (the day of Kuzma and Demyan). They honor both father and son - Svarozhich-Fire.

10. LAD and / or LADA - LAD (?)

Lada is the pan-Slavic goddess of love, the female way of life in the family, the goddess of marriage, according to the Czech “Mater Verborum”, (correlating there with Venus) and “Synopsis”, as well as “The Tale of the Construction of a Benedictine Monastery on Bald Mountain” (XVI century records), under the name Gardzyna ("Guardian"). Mentioned in the Polish church prohibitions of pagan rites of the early fifteenth century. Her month is April. She, apparently, is one of the Elk Ancestors. Corresponds with the ancient Greek Lato from the country of the Hyperboreans in the upper hypostasis, and Demeter - in the lower hypostasis. One of the Rozhanitsy. Wife of Lada and / or Svarog (Mars was Aphrodite's lover, Hephaestus was her husband). Its metal is gold, copper or bronze, and its stone is emerald.

Lad, Lado, Lyado, Ladon - the god of war, the god of fun, the god of marriage, the god of hell. According to the modern science According to opinion, Lada and Lad are one deity, such a well-known researcher as Faminitsyn was scolded for highlighting the god Lad, but the authors of the book have a different opinion on this matter, since a significant number of references to the god Lad are in the primary sources: Lad (“Synopsis” ); Lado or Lyado (“Gustinskaya chronicle”, “On the idols of Vladimirovs”); Ladon - "Polish Chronicle" by Jan Dlugosh; Alado (in Polish ecclesiastical prohibitions of pagan rites of the early fifteenth century). The deity Lado has signs of hermaphroditism, as well as the ancient Greek Apollo - Dedis Dewie (Did-Lado - our great deity), Dlugosh is echoed by other researchers Strykovsky, Belsky, Mekhovsky, Prokosh.

“Gustin Chronicle”: “The fourth (idol) Lado (si is Pluton), the god of hell, this was believed to be the god of marriage, fun, consolation and all prosperity, like Elina Bacchus; to this, sacrifices are brought to the Shah who want to marry, so that with his help a good and loving marriage would be. This Ladon demon, in some countries, and to this day at christenings and brothers is called, singing his own certain songs, and splashing his hands on his hands or on the table, Lado, Lado, weaving his songs, they commemorate many times. By the consonance of names, as is always the case in mythology, Lad and Lada make up a married couple. May be identified with the Roman Venus or the Greek Persephone. In this case, if the goddess Lada is identified with Venus, then Lad is close to Mars. If Lada is close to Demeter or Persephone, then Lada is related to Hades.

12. LIZARD, Yasha, Yassa, Iassa, Issaya, Yesha

Common Slavic hellish god. World Serpent. Mentioned more than once in the Polish church prohibitions of pagan rites in the 1420s. Perhaps it is one of the incarnations of Veles-Chernobog (as the son of Loki was the Midgard Serpent, and Azhi-Dahaka was the son of Anghro-Mainyu). In the Western Slavic medieval sources, it is mentioned together with Lado (see Lad).

The lizard is a hellish god.

However, according to the "Polish Chronicle" by Jan Dlugosh, he - Jessa - is correlated with Jupiter. And Famintsyn compares this deity, having nothing but a name, with Belobog, supposedly this is a “clear” god.

We believe that there is no god Jason - this is the fruit of the imagination of interpreters. In "Mater Verborum" we find, however, such a "namesake": "Jesen, jasni: Iesen, Yasni - Isis lingua egiptiorum terra dicitur".

Probably, there is just the owner of the depths and / or the kingdom of minerals, maybe the sea king - Yesha, the Lizard. It is characteristic that it was Poseidon of the Greeks who was called the "shaker of the earth." According to Dlugosh, "Jesus was prayed for the gift of earthly blessings." Music in the myth of Sadko is a worship service to the Sea King, and the harp had a lizard-like shape.

The Belarusian song has survived to this day:

Sit the Lizard under the fireworks
On a walnut bush
Where is the walnut lusna ...
(I want to get married)
Get yourself a girl
Which one do you want...

We know of other variants of it:

sit sit Yasha
Under the walnut bush
Gnaw-bite Yasha

Chok-chok, piglet!
Get up Yasha, you fool.
Where is your bride
What is she wearing
What is her name
And where will they bring...

Recorded several years ago in the village of Frolovo, Moscow Region, by Konstantin Begtin.

Side-sede Yashsha
At the willow bush
Gnawing Yashsha
Knee nuts, sweetly presented.
Tsok-tsok, lollipop,
Get up (beep) Yashsha, well done.
Come your bride
What is she wearing
What is her name
And from where they will bring ...

Academician Rybakov B. A. in “Paganism of Ancient Rus'” writes: “... the Slavic Lizard, who married a drowned girl, corresponds to Hades, the god of the underworld, the wife of Persephone. And the sacrifice was made not to these forces of seasonal action themselves, but to the constantly existing ruler of all underground-underwater forces that promote fertility, i.e. Lizard, Hades, Poseidon.

The toponyms of many lakes and rivers of the North-West remain traces of the habitation of “Russian crocodiles”: the Yaschera River, Lake Yaschino, the settlements of Yaschera, Malaya Yaschera, etc. In the vicinity of Moscow, one can point to the Spas-Crocodile Monastery near Klin (now the village of Spas-Krokodilino) . In the Novgorod region, there may have been a temple in the area of ​​​​the ruins of the Rdeisky monastery. In the same place, the Lizard was considered as a father or Volkhov himself.

The Lizard was especially honored on the Nut Savior and generously poured nuts into the mouths of the Lizard's idols. Perhaps, as a pallet ruler, a girl's doll (or even the girl herself) was thrown into the water.

13. LELYA, Lyalya.

Goddess of fertility. The second Rozhanitsa, the daughter of Lado, who, according to the Synopsis (1674), is the mother of Lelev. A virgin, but a goddess of childbearing, similar to Artemis (“The Tale of the Construction of a Benedictine Monastery on Bald Mountain” (XVI century records): “Bald Mountain is named from the Lysets castle, which was on it, so named because it was white. In that castle "one lady lived before. Exalted with pride that she defeated Alexander the Great under that mountain, she ordered to venerate herself as the goddess Diana: in the same place there was a temple of three idols whose names were Lada, Boda, Lelya. To them ordinary people converged on the first day May, pray to them and offer sacrifices to them.” By order of Princess Dubravka, the church was destroyed, and the Trinity Monastery was built there.

Since the celebration of Lelya and Lada fell on the first days of May, this gives reason to say that they are still goddesses, because on the night of May 1, on Bald Mountain, witches, according to the views of Christians, spend their Sabbath - Walpurgis Night. We learn a little earlier, in the Czestochowa manuscript of Jan from Mikhochin "(1423) we learn that" on these three days (of the Trinity holidays): old women, women and girls converge, but not to the temple, not to prayer, but to dances, not God, but the devil, that is, Yesha, Lado, Lelya, Nyya. Such, if they do not repent, let them go with "Yassa, Lado" to eternal damnation. And in a number of other Polish teachings against paganism of the 13th-14th centuries it is said that it is the girls who worship idols, and precisely in these days. Thus, Lelya is a goddess, and only in the fantasies of the authors of the 16th-18th centuries did she become the boy Lelya.

On Russian embroideries, it is possible that Lelya the woman in labor is presented as one of the two Elks, between them is Makosh, often mentioned next to Lada and Lada. Her day is Monday. Most likely the daughter of Lada (Boda) and Lada. Her tree is a mountain ash, but more often a birch ("In the field there was a birch - Lyalya, Lyalya stood"), metal - silver. The cult of Lelya and Lada is considered in detail by B. A. Rybakov. Lyalin Day also fell on the first days of October, when the hunting season began from October 2 to October 7. And also on Pokrova on October 14, if snow falls inadvertently. In the lower hypostasis is correlated with Persephone.

14. DY, DY, DIV

In Vedic and Sanskrit, deva is a derivative of the verbal root div, one of the meanings of which is “to shine” (and in general, there are a lot of them). It is from the same root that the words div and diy come, which have common indirect forms in Vedic (for example, dyaus in the nominative and vocative (with different stress), dive in the dative, etc.), and the stems of which alternate in Sanskrit. So, both div and diy mean "sky", "day", etc. Accordingly, these words also have a lot of derivatives. By the way, the literal meaning of the word deva is "heavenly". It is quite logical to assume that the Slavic divs and dyy are closely related to each other. Dyy is a god, according to the Dyevoy Ministry and the Word and Revelation of the Holy Apostles.

He is the Div bird from The Tale of Igor's Campaign. “Running Div, calls to the top of the tree - orders to listen to the unknown land” “Already blasphemed to praise; I will already crack the need to freedom; Divi is already falling to the ground.

Perhaps the god of heavenly waters is the next primordial sky, and not the one that was forged by the divine blacksmith Svarog. Since Deva in Sanskrit means "God", it can be compared with Rod as one of his names, meaning the abstract "God", the sky and the light of day.

“According to the Letovnik of George Amartol,” Galkovsky tells us, Diy was the son of Kron and the brother of Nin. Diy was named in the imelstye stars. The Persians had a law to take their mother and sister, which is why Diy was married to his sister Ira. In honor of Diya in Egypt, goats and other animals were slaughtered. Amartol says that Serug was the first to introduce the Hellenic doctrine in the Babylonian land to honor the exploits and deeds of the ancient former warriors or princes; later, non-leading people began to revere the famous ancestors for the gods: “like the gods of heaven, honor the gods, and zhrehou them, and not like a man who was dead.” Thus, people began to deify people who made some kind of discovery or invention - such, for example. Posidon - the inventor of shipbuilding, Hephaestus, the forger of copper, etc. But these deified heroes were ordinary people. “And of old, oubo, even from the creator of the gods, dia and krona and apolon, and iroya, more, human gods to be, deceitful things.” Then poems began to be deified under these names. “Dia dzhda decide to be”, i.e. Di is rain. Below it is said that people served the creature more than the Creator, idolized the sky, the earth, animals, birds and reptiles. "Imenovahow Dia sky". So, in Amartol, Diy means the deity of rain and sky, i.e. Zeus. We believe that the compiler of the Russian word was familiar with the Hellenic Chronicler of the first edition. According to the Chronicler, Diy was the son of Kronos (i.e. Chronos), who reigned in Assyria, who devoured his children; but Diy was saved thanks to the cunning of his mother Aria, who gave Krona a stone instead of a child. Diy in the Chronicler is identified with Zeus: “When would it be time for her to give birth to the Peak called Zeus, izhi es Diy”. A few lines below we read: “Kron, leave your son Peak Zeus, those who are, leave them in Asuri,” he took possession of the western countries. In the Chronograph of the second edition, Diy is also identified with Zeus: “there is Diy about Zeus.” Smoke is the same as DY. Diy also had a feminine form: “to eat the ov, and the other divi”. The conversation of Gregory the Theologian about the beating of the city, - Slavic insert. So, Diy or Dyy is the god of rain and sky, i.e. Zeus".

15. DIVA, DIVA

Goddess of the earth, wife of Dyya: “Oh, make demands on the stauden, jda lawsuits from him, forgetting like God from heaven to give. Eat the bearers of God, and make the God who created heaven and earth unfriend. She calls the river a goddess, and the beast living in it, like calling a god, demands to create. Eat sheep, and the other Divi. And read the ingrad. Ov shit vskrosch, laying on the head, the oath to create; ov oaths to create human bones. Ov kobeni bird watch. Ov meeting doubt. Ov muschn cattle, creating to kill. Ov in the week and on holy days to do, profit to yourself, creating your own death, but to do it this week, kill those days. I swear on my best lies"

Since in almost all Indo-European mythological systems there is an earth-sky pair, it is quite logical to assume that Div and Diva are such a pair, since Div corresponds to the sky and the light of the sky. Divya is the goddess Mother-Cheese-Earth, fertilized by the heavenly waters of Dyya. Divya, divitsa and other derivatives from here.

GODS AND GODDESSES OF A NEW GENERATION

16. YARILO, Yarovit and Ruevit

These are different incarnations of the same deity of fertility (“yar”, “spring”), the ardent god of awakening matter (“fury”), strength and youth (“yarka” - a young strong sheep) and spring light (“bright”) (Eastern Slav Yarilo; Zap.Slav. Yarovit, Zap.Slav. Yaromir according to the unrecognized "Kraledvorskaya Manuscript"). The god of war Yarovit, whose temple was in Volegast (Volegoshche), is functionally similar to the violent, zealous Tour of the Eastern Slavs, Mars - the Romans according to eyewitnesses, Arey - the Greeks, Tyr - the Scandinavians.

It is possible that Yarovit and Ruevit - Yariy and Zealous - are two names of a single deity among the Western Slavs. Rugevit or Ruevit - among the Rug-Ruyans, the seven-faced god of war, an idol stood in the city of Karenze (Kornitsa) on Rügen. Saxo writes: “(The city) is famous for the temples of three glorious temples. The main temple was located in the middle of the front part of the temple, which, like the temple, having no walls, was bequeathed with a purple cloth, so that the roof lay on the same columns. When both covers were torn off, the oak idol of Ruevit ugly opened up from all sides.

Ruevita's idol was exterminated by Bishop Absalon in 1168. He had eight swords and seven heads and was gigantic in stature. Four heads were male and two female, the seventh animal was on the chest. Unless the paraphernalia says that these are different gods in the understanding of the Rugs and Stetins. The symbol of Yarovit was a huge shield, most likely personifying the sun, since holidays were held in honor of it before the start of summer (as with Yarila, calling fertility to the fields).

It is quite characteristic that Yarilo participates in Belarusian holidays either in the form of Yara-Yarilikha, or in the form of a man with a huge phallus. Meanwhile, the root "yar" is present in such specifically "female" words: spring sheep - bright, yoke, spring wheat, spring bread, but the use of this root in the feminine: rage, milkmaid, yar, yarina (sheep's wool), yara (spring).

We consider Yarila as a dying and resurrecting son or a reality hypostasis of Veles, who acts as Frost in winter, and in spring as Yarila. His day is Tuesday. Its month is March, named after the god of war - Mars, its metal is iron, stones - amber, ruby, garnet, hematite.

It seems interesting to us that this god had its analogues among a number of peoples. And, although a number of researchers hastily write down Yarila in late medieval fiction, this cannot be so since the root “yar” is the oldest common Slavic and even Indo-Aryan root. Recall that, etymologically and functionally, the Slavic Yaril correspond to the Roman Eryl, who has several lives, like Mars, the god of the ardent power of the rebirth of nature, the Hitto-Hurrian god of war Yarri, the Akkadian god of war Erra, the Greek god of war Ares-Arey.

The celebration of Yarila firstly falls on March 21, the beginning of the first month of the pagan year, this is due to the fact that "the cattle god raises Winter on his horns." Perhaps on the same day the gods awakening life were honored - Zhiva, Dazhdbog and Svarog. They honor Yarila and Yuri Zimny ​​- December 9, together with Dazhdbog.

17. DAZHDBOG, Dazhbog, Dab, RADEGAST, Radigosh, Svarozhich

They are different variations of the same name. God of fertility and sunlight, life-giving force. We correlate with Helios, the son of Svarog. The ancestor of the Slavs (the Slavs, according to the text “The Tale of Igor's Campaign” - Dazhdbozh's grandchildren) “Then, under Olze, Gorislavlichi sows and spreads strife, perishes the life of Dazhdbozh’s grandson, in princely seditions, the vezi is reduced to a man.”

“Resentment arose in the strength of Dazhdbozh’s grandson, she entered the land of Troyan as a virgin, splashed her swan wings on the blue sea near the Don: splash, lose fat times.”

According to the "Word of John Chrysostom ... what was the first trash they believed in idols and they laid trebs on them ...", the god of the sun and life-giving power.

Probably, Dazhdbog could, following the white Sventovit, correlate with Apollo (Targeliy) as the god of sunlight. In the teachings against paganism, among other gods, they are mentioned next to Artemis: “and having started to the idol and began to eat lightning and thunder, and the sun and the moon, and friends to Pereun, Hours, vilam and Mokosh, we rest and coast, they also call distant sisters, and others we believe in Svarozhitz and in Artemis, whom the unknowing people pray, and they cut chickens ... and we drown the essence in the waters. And friends come to the wells to pray and throw into the water ... offering a sacrifice, and friends fire and stone, and rivers, and springs, and banks, and firewood - not only before in filth, but many and now they are doing it.

Dazhdbog. He, apparently, is Radegast, Radogost - among the Western Slavs, according to the German chronicles; Radigoshch and Radogoshch - among the Vyatichi. The son of Svarog, the grandson of Krat, the god of the sun and the real Light (also correlated with Mitra), his day is Sunday, his metal is gold, his stone is yahont. The celebration may fall on the day of Rodion the Icebreaker. The largest cult center of Svarozhich was located on the lands of the Lutich Retarii, was repeatedly destroyed and rebuilt again - in 953 it was ruined by Otto the First, in 1068 by the Saxon Bishop Burchardt the Second and was finally burned by the Germans in 1147-1150. during the crusade against the pagans of the Bavarian Duke Heinrich the Lion. Bronze images of the Lutich gods and ritual objects from the Retrinsk temple were found in the soil of the village of Prilwitz at the end of the 17th century. The figurines are covered with Slavic runic inscriptions. On the lands of the Vyatichi people, settlements were also named in honor of the god Svarozhich. The name Radegast would sound like Radigosh here. Radogoshch - two settlements claim its role - this is either Pogar on the Sudost River (a tributary of the Desna), west of Trubchevsk and north of Novgorod Seversky, or Radogosh proper on the Nerussa River, north of Sevsk and west of Krom. The sacred animal of Dazhdbog - Radegast was considered a lion (like the Persian god of the Sun - Mithra), Svarozhich was depicted either with a lion's head or riding a chariot drawn by lions. Note that the root "rad" meant sunlight among the Slavs, hence the "rainbow" - the solar arc. The same "solar" root and the word "joy, joy" - that is, given by the rays (cf. lat. radio) of the sun.

Hence the names Radegast, Radogosh consist of three words: Rad - sunny, "yes", before" by analogy with Dagbog, Dazhdbog can mean donation, gift, and "gast", "gosh" are semantically close to the word "guest". In other words, these names, perhaps, mean: "a guest who gives the sun and sunlight", or a messenger of the gods, who brought the power of light and the sun as a gift. In this case, the East Slavic Dazhbog and the West Slavic Radegast are different names for the same god - Svarozhich. Frenzel speaks of him as "De Radegastos. Marte Soraborumque altero supremo Deo ”- Radegast in the Serbo-Lusatian pantheon is no less significant than even Sventovit himself.

The symbols of Svarozhich are not only royal lions, but also wild boars (boar is also the embodiment of Indian Vishnu and Scandinavian Freyr). One of the attributes is a sword, later an ax, and also a spear, possibly a scarlet banner: “Does the devil Svarozhich and the leader of the saints converge in this, yours and ours Mauritius? Those. Who in front raises the sacred spear, and those who stain the diabolical banners with human blood?

Radegast's bird is a rooster that heralds the coming of the sun with its cry. On the idol, the Venedian runes wrote the name of God, perhaps there was also solar symbolism. The head of the idol is placed at sunrise or southeast so that he can follow its progress.

Dazhdbog was called the Savior, i.e. Savior, but not in the sense of saving the lost sheep of Israel, but in the military sense - a protector. Because Apple (August 19) and honey spas(August 14) - these are the days of honoring Svarozhich. He, along with Yarila, is also honored on Yuri Zimny ​​(December 9).

18. PERUN, Perunova

The god of thunder and lightning, like heavenly fire, is mentioned in the annals in the treaties of the Rus and Slavs with the Romans (Prince Oleg - 907, Prince Igor - 945, Prince Svyatoslav - 971). Svarozhich (Perun - in Russian chronicles, Perunova, Perun, that is, Jupiter - in "Mater Verborum", Peroun - in the "Word and Revelation of the Holy Apostles" from the teachings against paganism of the 14th century). How the Elinsky god (a hint of Zeus) is mentioned in the "Word of Bribery" (list of the 16th century) and in the "Word of Repentance" (list of the 16th century). The supreme god of the pantheon Vladimir is the god of the ruling military elite, the prince and the squad. God punishing for non-compliance with the laws of Reveal and Rule. Comprehensive information about the idol of Perun is contained in the “Gustinskaya Chronicle”: “Firstly, Perkonos, this is Perun, they had an elder god, created in the likeness of a man, in his hands there was a valuable stone like fire, he, like God, offered sacrifice and fire unquenchable from the oak tree incessantly fire; if it would happen due to the negligence of the serving priest when this fire is extinguished, the same priest without any warning and mercy will kill.

And also in the teaching “On the idols of the Vladimirovs”: “In the first place put the most basic idol. In the name of God's perun, thunder i lightning i rain clouds on a hillock high above a storm stream like a little man. his bodies were cunningly carved from the tree; In the hands of holding a stone in the likeness of a perun, a burning one. rubies. And decorated with a carboucle: "Further, the story with unquenchable fire is repeated word for word. According to Frenzel - "Percuno, Deo tonitru & fulguru".

Perun is also mentioned in the “Tale of the (Mamaev) Massacre led. book. Ditriy Ivanovich Donskoy "together with Mokosh among the pagan gods of the impious "Tatars". But, most likely, the compassionate compiler of the narrative wrote down the main pagan gods as assistants to the wicked, which, undoubtedly, he knew even then - Mokos (Veles) and Perun. It must be admitted that among the supporters of Prince Dmitry Ivanovich, then an ally of another Khan Takhtamysh, there were baptized Tatars, and, perhaps, not only baptized ones. The ruin of Moscow by Mamai's successor in 1382 forced this fact to be hushed up in Russian history in every possible way and the Battle of Kulikovo field was filed with a clearly religious connotation in the interests of the Orthodox Church.

Perunov day - Thursday. The day of Elijah the Prophet (August 2) and the period from July 20 to August 2-4 are especially celebrated. They also celebrate Perunov's day on June 21 ("Fedor-Stratilat is rich in thunderstorms")

Its metal is tin, its stone is belemnite (devil's finger-perun's arrows), sapphire, lapis lazuli; tree - oak, beech. He was associated with fertility, in Orthodoxy it is correlated with Elijah the Prophet, as the defender of the real world from the Navi, literary in later times is correlated with Zeus, who owns a perun. Correlates with Perkunas of the Balts, Thor of the Scandinavians, Tarinis of the Celts.

So, Perun, the elder son of Svarog:

1. God of thunder and lightning as heavenly fire
2. The patron saint of warriors and the princely squad.
3. God-ruler, god punishing for non-compliance with laws.
4. Defender of Yavi.
5. Giver of male power.

The symbols of the temple are an oak idol, a stone, or two stones on either side of the idol, a sacrificial fire lit in front of the idol, a six-beam wheel on the idol, a symbol of lightning or an arrow, or even a thunder arrow itself with the idol. Probably the pagans did not cut living trees for idols - a live, but an old, powerful oak was already a symbol of worship for them, putting facial features on it with gold and silver paint. Oak struck by lightning was especially revered and amulets, staves, wands, arrows made from it were considered the best guardians from Navi.

19. SIMARGL, SEMARGL

Fire god. First of all, his name is mentioned in Russian chronicles - the pantheon of Prince. Vladimir, it came, presumably, from the old Russian “smag” (“I’ll call Karn after him, and Zhlya jump across the Russian land, Smag mooing in a rose flame”) i.e. fire, tongue of flame, Fire-Svarozhich - half dog, half snake. Probably, the mediator between the real world and the world under heaven, which in the Vedic tradition is the god of fire - Agni. He is a penezhny (fiery) snake from conspiracies. Mentioned in the Paisevsky collection of St. Gregory (14th century) and the Chrysostom collection of 1271 Ognebog-Yognebozhe, according to the Veda of the Slavs by Verkovich, among the Pomak Bulgarians;

Fala ti Yogne God!
Fala ti Yasnu Sun!
You heat up on the earth.
Having baked a chick to the ground ...
... Pokrivash e tsyrna Muggle,
that sa niche and look.

He, quite possibly, is Rarog, Rarozhek is the son of Svarog, according to Czech medieval sources. Already in Orthodox times in PJJ, according to ak. B.A. Rybakov, Pereplut is named - the god of soil, plant roots, plant power, but there are no grounds for identifying Pereplut and Semargl. Such a correlation, of course, has a certain sacred meaning, since plants under the influence of sunlight, as it were, pierced (horn) the soil and went out to the sun, but Semargl is also not connected with the sun.

Identification of this god with the Iranian Senmurv (a giant magical bird) we believe is unjustified, but, probably, there is a connection with the firebird (a fiery herald of happiness) that brings his happiness.

In the Middle Ages, it was incorrectly understood under the name of two gods at once: “For the sake of it, it is not appropriate for Christians to play bezovsky games, even eating dancing, gudba, songs of the Myr and eating idlskaya, even praying fires with a barn and pitchfork and Mokoshiya and Sim and Rgl and Perun and Rod and Rozhanitsy" ("Word about bribery" according to the list of the 16th century).

The interpretation of Rugla as a separate lizard-like deity is not justified. Recognizing him, it will be necessary to prove that Prince Vladimir established the pillars of both Sim and Rugla, while there is no indication of this.

Semargl also spoke under his own name, say in the Word of a certain Christ-lover of the XIV century: “they pray to fire to Svarozhich, i to the garlic - to God, but they create it - when there is a feast for someone, then they put it in buckets i and bowls, and drink about their idols rejoicing is not worse than the essence of heretics.

Semargl-Svarozhich was honored in all those days when folk calendar replete with signs of a fire and fire. On April 14 Marena burns down in a ritual flame and together with her Semargl drowns the last snows. September 17 - Burning Bush, possibly Podaga. Semargl-Svarozhich is honored from November 14 to 21 in Svarozhki, the image of Svarozhich-Fire merged with the image of the Archangel Michael with a fiery sword.

20. HORS, HOROS

God of the solar disk. Note that the veneration of the sun separately as a planet and sunlight is found among many peoples. So, among the Etruscans, the god of the solar disk is Strength, and the god of light is the god Kave; among the ancient Greeks, the solar disk is Helios, and the light of the sun is Apollo; among the Russians, the god of sunlight is Dazhdbog, and the god of the solar disk is Khors.

The cult tends to the steppe and forest-steppe zone of the Slavic lands, the name of this god is mentioned in the Russian chronicles of the pantheon of Prince. Vladimir, in the apocryphal "Walking of the Mother of God through the torments", in the PJP "On the idols of Vladimirov", "Memory and praise to Vladimir" and the life of "blessed Volodimer", "The word of a certain Christ-lover", "A word about how the first trash existing tongues bowed to an idol ”, he is commemorated in the “Conversation of the Three Hierarchs”.

“The Tale of Igor’s Campaign” testifies to a certain night path of Khors, for Vseslav prowled in the form of a wolf precisely at night: “Vseslav prince is judging by people, he is a prince of the city, and he himself is a wolf prowling in the night; from Kiev doriskashe to the chickens of Tmutorokan, the path of the great Khorsov and the wolf is broken by a wolf.

“The word and revelation of the holy apostles”: “the gods of many Peroun and Hors Dyya and Troyan and other many will not enter into the delusion of greatness, for as if the people were the elders of Peroun in Elinakh, and Khors in Cyprus, Troyan was the king in Rome.” “... others around the borders pray to him, the damned fool Perenou, Khorsow, Mokshi, vilam ...”

Welcoming Khors, the Slavs danced and built Sanctuaries for him - mansions, mansions. In Orthodoxy, he is associated with George the Victorious and, as a solar deity, he should be a horseman and a serpent fighter, he is probably the god of the world order in something similar to Mithra.

The German Wunderer, who traveled around Rus' later than 1581, described the image of Khors near Pskov: “Kors (i.e. Khors), who stands on a snake, having a sword in one hand, and a fiery ray in the other.” It should be noted the undoubtedly significant work of the Russian researcher Alexei Bychkov, who drew on a lot of Western sources that were previously inaccessible to us, describing Khors in a similar way (and a number of other Slavic gods in the late Middle Ages).

The following words are probably associated with the name of Khors in Russian: good, khoruv, chorus, associated with the true order of things (right) and joint work. Khors is the god of the world order associated with the course of the sun. Khors and Dazhdbog correlate as Greek Helios and Apollo. God Navi could be called, in contrast to him, Black Horos, i.e. the same solar disk, but located on the night side of the world. The image goes back to ancient times and the serpent-fighting myth. Perhaps, among the Skolots, this is Koloksai (Sun-king) - the son of Targitai (blacksmith Svarog), and then the god Khors - Svarozhich.

Note that the roots "horo" and "kolo" are semantically associated with the concept of round. A round dance is a circle of people holding hands walking in a circle, mansions are a circular building, a banner is something that unites the military circle. Such round objects as a bell, a kolobok (round side), a stake, a brace are associated with the root “kolo”. The latter concept is directly related to the change in solar cycles. Horse's Day is Sunday, like Dazhdbog's, metal is pure gold. The days of Khors coincide with any solstice, for example, summer - June 21 to 25 (Kupala), autumn - September 21 - 23 (Ovsen Small, Tausen, Autumn Horos). An indispensable attribute of the veneration of Khors is round dances.

21. MARA, MORENA

Marzhana, Martsana, Morena, Morana - the pan-Slavic goddess of fertility and harvest. According to the "Chronicle of Poland" by Jan Długosz and "Mater Verborum", correlated with Hekate ("Ecate, trivia vel nocticula, Proserpina"). She is also Mara - the goddess of death according to the late origin of the "Kraledvorskaya Manuscript" and Marzava according to A. Frenzel ("De Marzava, Dea Morte, Dea Mortis"). Morana among the Czechs in the late Middle Ages is the goddess of not just death, but also winter.

For the expulsion of Mary, a poker and plowing of the settlement were used. With the dark side of the goddess, such concepts as pestilence, pestilence, sea, as dangerous environment, nightmare. The goddess herself is the hypostasis of the most ancient Great Mother — the mistress of life and death, and in this case is the dark side of Mokosh or Yaga in her dark hypostasis. It is no coincidence that Makosh was compared with Hecate. Madder is honored at the Meeting - Wednesday, February 15, they appease her so that she does not linger, and spring is called. Maslenitsa is considered the culmination of the celebrations of Marena days.

22. ALIVE

Slavic goddess of life and fertility. In "Mater Verborum" we meet "Ziva: Alive - dea frumenti Ceres, - Diva Estas". Dlugosh says that Zhive is the god of life. This is the fifteenth century and it is not so far from the truth. In the Serbo-Lusatian pantheon of A. Frenzel, there are more variations of this name: “Siwa Polon. Zyvvie, Dea vita".

Her name is also the beautiful lady (Krasopani), as well as Milka or Milda (Mila). Zhiva's largest sanctuary was in the Polabian town of Ratibor. Foreign authors of the 15th-17th centuries redraw each other's image of her in the form of a buxom naked woman with fruits in her hands. In semantics, the name of the goddess is close to the word "life" and is associated with the idea of ​​prosperity, as in the words: profit, profit. Stryjkowski connects a certain "god of the noisy wind Zhiva" and the Weather, "the god of clear and cheerful days." Two centuries later, Prokosh speaks of the god Zhiva as the supreme one, and the son of a certain god Trzha. Live with Prokosh "the creator of life, long and happy well-being, especially worshiped by those who hear the first cry of the cuckoo: It was believed that this supreme ruler of the Universe turns into a cuckoo in order to announce their life span:". However, this is a later myth-making.

23. PORVATA

Zap.-glor. goddess of spring. Opponent of Mary Morena, goddess of fertility according to the Mater Verborum, also correlated with Proserpina. Probably, it is she who meets with Mara at the Candlemas. Etymologically connected with Porevit, Porenut and Prove. Perhaps etymologically connected with Parvati, the wife of Shiva (our Veles), who has the same functions, the mother of Skanda (our Yarila).

24. PERUNITSA-LETNITSA

Letnitsa (western-glorious) goddess, wife of Perun, according to the Mater Verborum, she is probably Perunitsa, Gromovitsa, Melania, the Lightning Queen. Honored on the same days as Perun.

25. CORUNA

Mother of the gods, according to the PJP "Word of St. Gregory"; perhaps this is one of the epithets of Lada or Diva. It is quite possible that her name is associated with the word crown and crown, as the designation of the supreme and upper (see roof, roof).

26. PROVE

Prono, Provo, Prove (Рrovo) (Zap.-Slav.) - the god of law, the god of oak groves, was revered by the Wagrams, the god of the Aldenburg land according to Helmold: “... we went further along Slavia to visit one powerful man, whose name was Teshemir because he invited us to his place. And it happened that on the way we came to a grove, the only one in this region, which is entirely located on the plain. Here, among very old trees, we saw sacred oaks dedicated to the god of this land - Prova. They were surrounded by a courtyard surrounded by a skillfully made wooden fence, which had two gates. All cities abounded with penates and idols, but this place was the shrine of the whole earth ... The Slavs have such respect for their shrines that the place where the temple is located is not allowed to be defiled with blood even during the war. It is also reported by Shchediy Mikhei (“On the German Gods” (c. 1750), “De Prove, deo sive praeside Justitia ac fori” - A. Frenzel (“History of the Peoples and Customs of Upper Lusatia”, 1696). The “Saxon Chronicle” by Conrad Botho (1495) says this: “1123 In Oldenburg there was a god called Prove, and he stood on a pillar, and had a red iron of trials in his hand, and had a banner and long ears, and a pair of boots, and under the foot is a bell.

27. PORENUCH

Porenut (Porenutius) (West-Slav.). With regard to Porenuch or Porenut and Porevit (Porevith), little can be said for certain, except that both have five faces, five heads. Frenzel defines it like this: "De Porenuito, Deo embryonis"

(C) "Circle of Bera" from "Circle of Pagan Tradition", 2003

Religious ideas of people originate in the early Paleolithic era, about 400 thousand years ago, and are associated with the fact that a person could not explain some natural phenomena and processes, giving all this magical properties, and recognizing their powerlessness in front of the natural elements. All pagan beliefs have common features and are somewhat similar to each other, but there are differences. A special religion, which has its own unique pantheon of deities, developed among the Slavic tribes, so let's look back centuries, and our short review presents the most famous and revered Slavic Gods.

Genus

In the Slavic religion, as in the beliefs of other peoples of the world, there was a world tree. For our ancestors, it was the Oak, on top of which Rod sat, often depicted as a Falcon.

It was this deity who personified the unity of the clan, watched from above everything that happened. Many rituals and traditions are associated with the cult of the Family, including abundant sacrifices.

Over time, the cult of the Family becomes traditionally female, but an echo of its masculine principle can be the fact that falconry was a purely male occupation, and was a princely privilege.

A person divides the world into two components - benevolent to people and hostile, therefore, in many religions, including Slavic, the eternal struggle between Good and Evil is displayed.

Belobog, who was considered the god of happiness and good luck, was the personification of the bright side, friendly to man. And here dark side was the patrimony of Chernobog. There was a constant struggle between these deities, which was reflected in legends and tales.

Society developed, and over time, faith in Belobog and Chernobog was lost, although their traces were preserved in Russian fairy tales in the images of Fate and Share.

This female deity personified earthly and female fertility, and was especially revered in Slavic society, because according to legend, Kolyada gave people the Sun.

Kolyada was the wife of Belobog, and every spring she brought into the world a new Sun. Chernobog in every possible way prevented the revival of light, and constantly harmed Kolyada. He ordered his wife Mara to kill Kolyada, but she turned into a goat and was able to escape.

Echoes of the cult of Kolyada and the birth of Bozhich-Sun by her can be observed in the celebration of Christmas by Christians, where among the characters there is a goat that saved Kolyada, and carolers carry with them a star, more reminiscent of the Sun.

After sunset, the time of Chernobog and his wife Mary comes. Mara walks between the houses of people, pronouncing their names aloud, and whoever responds to her voice immediately dies.

It is she who is the mistress of the kingdom of the dead, the goddess of Evil, Disease, Terrible Dreams and Night. Mara had thirteen daughters, whom people personified with the most terrible vices and misfortunes.

As in the confrontation between Belbog and Chernobog, in the confrontation between Mary and Kolyada, the struggle of Life and Death, Good and Evil principles that exist on Earth is reflected.

The Slavs usually depicted Bozhich in the form of a heavenly deer with golden horns that shone dazzlingly, giving people light and joy.

Naturally, he personified the cycle of day and night, the change of seasons and was closely associated with the agricultural cult. Every spring, having been reborn, Bozic gave people joy, hope for a rich harvest, and, consequently, for a happy life.

With the development of the Slavs and the complication of social relations, Bozhich loses its original meaning, and more influential deities personifying the Sun come to replace it.

With the emergence of inequality in Slavic society and strengthening, a formidable and strong God was needed, personifying power and statehood.

It was precisely such a God that Perun became, who eventually became the main Slavic deity of the pre-Christian period of history. The God of Thunder was a reflection of the agricultural cult, responsible for the appearance of rain.

Over time, he becomes a princely god, and Vladimir makes him the main god of Rus', whose idol was installed on a temple in Kyiv. With the adoption of Christianity, he was transformed into Elijah the Prophet, especially revered in Orthodoxy.

The god, especially revered by the Slavs, patronized fire and blacksmithing. It was Svarog who contributed to the development of technology and scientific knowledge.

The worship of fire was one of the very first religious cults, which later became entrenched in all world religions, including Christianity.

The image of the blacksmith god harmoniously entered the legend of the fight against the snake, which sought to destroy the crop. Blacksmiths were especially revered in Rus', maybe because the most common surname among the Slavs is Kuznetsov, and all derivatives of the blacksmith are Koval, Kovalev, Kovalenko.

The Slavs have long worshiped the Sun, and we already know that there was Bozhich, personifying the Sun, as well as the process of reviving nature.

As they developed, the Slavs began to come into close contact with the tribes that came from the East, and many historians believe that the Slavic Khors is a direct continuation of the ancient Iranian Khurset.

Whatever it was, but Khors personified the solar disk, the circle among the Slavs. Many words in Russian have the basis “khor” - “good”, “khorom”, that is, the whole world, the whole community, and the round dance, as everyone knows, is an educated circle of people holding hands.

The basis of the Slavic economy, along with agriculture, was cattle breeding, therefore Veles appears in the pantheon of deities, who is responsible for the livestock of the Slavic community.

His traces remained not only in legends, but also in historical documents. So the Russians swear, including by Veles when signing an agreement with the Greeks in 907. It also appears in ancient Russian literary works, including The Tale of Igor's Campaign.

In Christianity, Veles was transformed into St. Blaise, on whom the functions of caring for livestock fell, and his day was often called the “cow holiday” in Rus'.

It is believed that this deity was also formed under the influence of Eastern religions, because the ancient Iranians had the deity Simurgh, depicted as a dog.

Historians are so completely clear and cannot determine the functions of the Slavic Semargl, but perhaps he was a messenger between the earthly and heavenly worlds, and therefore was depicted with wings, as well as the guardian of crops.

In Rus', the veneration of Semargl is associated with the fact that Russian society was heterogeneous in national law, and in addition to the Slavs, in Kyiv and other cities, a large number of immigrants from the east lived.

Dadbog, or Dazhdbog, as well as Khors, was the god of the Sun, but had more ancient roots in Slavic society. In legends and literary works, it is often mentioned together with Stribog, and together they personify a clear, cloudless sky.

One of the most revered deities among the Slavs, since the very name reflects the process of turning to God - “God forbid”. As you can see, this idiom has also become entrenched in Christian prayers, and the expression “As God wills” is a clear reflection of the image of the Slavic Dazhbog.

Traces of belief in Dazhbog survived in Rus' until the 18th century. It is often mentioned in folk songs and tales.

In the pantheon of the Slavic Gods, there was also a female deity Mokosh, or Makosh, personifying earthly and female fertility. In addition, Mokosh acted as the patroness of the household and women's needlework, weaving.

One of the important functions of Mokosh was also the protection of water sources and springs. She patronizes pregnant women, helps them bear the fetus and give birth successfully, and women, in turn, offered prayers to their beloved goddess at wells, rivers and lakes. The etymology of the name of the goddess is closely connected with the expression "Mother - damp earth", literally Mokosh.

The Slavs revered Mokosh as the mother of the harvest, life's blessings and domestic abundance. Originally, Friday was considered the day of Mokosh, and according to legend, on this day, in order not to anger the goddess, it was impossible to start new business.

As you can see, the Slavic gods are unique and peculiar, and each has its own special status and purpose. Under the influence of other cultures, religious ideas among the Slavs changed, new deities appeared, new mythical plots. But this was not a blind borrowing, the new beliefs harmoniously fit into the already established traditions, fell on the fertile ground of a peculiar and unique Slavic culture.

Much of the pagan faith was then entrenched in Christianity, and many Orthodox church holidays have deep pagan roots. Slavic culture is rich and diverse, and it is she who acts as the foundation for the development of society, the basis of life.

ROD - Slavic God. The Supreme Almighty, the All-God is the beginning and cause of everything living and non-living in this world, he is in everyone, from here such Native and important words for every Slav as MOTHERLAND, NATURE, SPRING, etc. Identifies many Gods and Ancestors, he one and many at the same time, when we remember all our ancestors: Fathers, Grandfathers, Great-grandfathers and Great-great-grandfathers, we say - this is our ROD.
The genus is the most revered of the Slavic gods, and its image is the strongest amulet.

BelBog is the bright hypostasis of the supreme God of the Slavs of the Sort, the embodiment of light. God of good luck and happiness, embodying the universal forces of conservation and creation. He is the God of a bright and spring day, Happy life. Previously, our ancestors, the Slavs, did not start any serious business without glorifying Belobog. He is also considered the giver of wealth and fertility.

Svarog is the God of Heaven, the lord and father of the rest of the bright Gods.
Svarog is the patron and creator of heavenly and earthly fire, the patron and progenitor of the entire Slavic Family.
Svarog - God the blacksmith who created the obvious world, the visible universe (hence the word: “bung”, i.e. create, create something). Svarog sends the sun's rays to the earth, making it fertile, nourishes and warms the flora and fauna.

Lada - The female hypostasis of the Family. Goddess of love, beauty, marriage, abundance. In the name of Lada, the ancient Slavs called not only the original goddess of love, but also the whole system of life - Lad, where everything should be harmonious and fine.
The wife called her beloved Lado, and he called her his Ladushka.

Svyatovid - many Slavic tribes honored Svyatovid as the god of victories and war. A special feast was dedicated to Svyatovid - the name day of the barn, and they were celebrated only in the fall. Therefore, along with this, he was also recognized as the god of fertility; prayers were sent to him for an abundance of earthly fruits and prosperity in the house and in the Family!

Perun God - Thunderer, Slavic warrior, by his will prevents the forces of Darkness from destroying the Light, keeping the Forces of Reveal and Navi in ​​balance. This is God connecting the Earth and Sky with his Fiery Arrows, chasing evil spirits with strong lightning, and golden - fertilizing the fields. Perun is the god of thunder and just power, the protector of the Slavic lands and the patron of fearless warriors, the son of the God Svarog and the Goddess Lada. His path is the path of righteousness, alien to all wickedness and lies. Whoever follows him will certainly receive immortal glory and great power.

Makosh (Mokosh) - Great Goddess. She possesses the secret of Rule, the secret of the Destiny of all living on this earth. Both people and Gods obey her orders. She patronizes women in their household chores. Also, all divination and fortune-telling cannot do without Makosh, here she is revealed as the “Mother of the Lot” and the “Goddess of Fate”, fortune-telling, magic, to be under the auspices of this Goddess.

Makosh is a spinner, she spins the threads of fate into a ball, and, depending on our actions, weaves Share (good deeds) and lack (bad deeds and actions) into our ball of fate.

Makosh is also the patroness of marriage and family happiness, for one of the special secrets trusted only by Makosh was dreams of a betrothed.

Veles is one of the greatest gods of the ancient world, the God of wisdom and wealth, prophetic and Great.
Veles is the giver of earthly blessings and riches, the trustee of tillers and merchants.
He is the spiritual mentor of the wise magicians and storytellers, the patron of travelers, shamans and magicians. Veles is also the owner of Navi, the guide of human souls to another other world, the keeper of the ancient knowledge of the Vedas and the paths to the three worlds: Reality, Nav, Rule - Earth, Underground, Heaven. Depicted in a hat with horns or a horned helmet with a staff and a cornucopia in his hands.

Dazhdbog (Dazhbog) - Slavic God of white light, sun and heat. The giver of all blessings and the keeper of life on earth (hence his name Dazhdbog - the Giving God). Dazhdbog is the deliverer of people from the forces of the dark world of all wickedness. During the day he rides across the sky on a golden chariot, holding a shield in his right hand - the Sun, and at night he sails on a silver boat in the underworld.

Alive - the Slavic Goddess, the personification of all earthly life, as well as fruitful strength, youth, beauty, fertility and birth!
Goddess Alive, gives kindness, tenderness, cordiality and attentiveness to pregnant women and nursing mothers, so she protects all the girls who have yet to give birth to Slavic children.

Khors - the God of the Sun among the Slavs, the God of the solar disk, was widely revered in all Slavic lands. The tribal memory transferred this god to such kind words as a good round dance - the oldest sacred dance, holding hands and leading him, our ancestors thereby welcomed Khors, merging with him with common energy and becoming a particle of God.

Until now, among many Slavic peoples, the solar disk is denoted by the word "horo".
And the ancient sanctuaries of Khors and other Gods were called mansions, hence the word Temple.

Yarilo - Slavic god of fertility, spring, an ardent god of awakening nature and the spring Sun, inspiration and youth, natural strength, love delight and fighting rage. He is the very embodiment of the solar jari - a riot of vitality that raises ears of corn filled with power to the sky. It is embodied in a person as a strong will to continue his Family and the will to live in general.

Lel - love passion, the god of love and marriages. He was portrayed as a handsome and cheerful fair-haired shepherd boy. Who, playing a gentle melody of love on his magic pipe, awakens passion in the hearts of Slavic boys and girls!

We still have the Tribal memory of this beautiful and cheerful god of love, innocent passion, this is the word that we use to this day - “cherish”, that is, love, undead ...

In some Slavic languages, the Stork, which was considered the sacred bird of Lel, is called - Lelka!

StriBog - the old God, the grandfather of the winds The deity of the air, the sky. This is the old and mighty God, whose dominion extends in the space between Heaven and Earth. Stribog controls elemental forces: lightning, winds, storms, whirlwinds and hurricanes. They turned to him if they wanted to influence the weather. Stribog was revered by the ancients as the destroyer of all kinds of evil intentions and atrocities. Mentioned in "The Tale of Igor's Campaign" "Behold the winds, Stribozh's grandchildren, blow from the sea with arrows on Igor's brave regiments"

Chur - God is the patron, protector of native lands, borders, protects the hearth of the home. He protects the patrimonial possessions from unclean forces Since ancient times, a conspiracy has been preserved from evil spirits and all sorts of troubles, which we still use, saying “Chur, me” or “Chur, on your tongue” to protect yourself from an unkind word.
His name goes back to ancient times, when the Great Deified Ancestor was called Chura, Ancestor.

Chernobog is the dark hypostasis of the supreme Slavic Deity of the Family, Chernobog is the lord of Navi, Darkness and the Pekelny kingdom.
Embodies the universal forces of destruction and change for subsequent rebirth at a new level.

Marena - in Slavic mythology, the goddess of death, responsible with the seasonal rituals of dying and resurrection of nature, as well as with the rituals of causing rain. In the spring rituals of the Slavs, Madder was called a straw effigy - the embodiment of death (mora) and winter, which was drowned, burned during the celebration of the ancient holiday of Maslenitsa at the time of the Spring equinox, which was intended to ensure the harvest. Marena can be asked to destroy all the bad and evil that you have accumulated.

Triglav is the unity of the three main essences-hypostases of the gods and the embodiment of the ancient Slavic vision of the universal world - these three worlds are Yav, Nav, Rule. - Svarog (Right), Perun (Yav) and Veles (Nav). This is the deity of the trinity of the way of the world, which reflects the very essence of our world order.

And finally, a little about Domovoy:
In Rus', the brownie is directly called the owner, hostess. In fact, the brownie is the ideal of the owner, as the Russian person understands him: he sees every little thing, tirelessly busies himself and makes sure that everything is in order and ready - here he helps the worker, there he corrects his mistake.

If he likes housing, then he serves the household and their elder, looks after the whole house and yard "more than the master's eye", looks after family interests and takes care of the property "more than a caring peasant."

The brownie only cares about his relatives, his house, his yard, and that is why they call him a brownie, these names indicate the space within which his power is honored and gifts and gifts are brought to him.